I went sketching with a high school art student  from France  who visited me with her U.S. host family. Lisa, the talented and art...

  Eight years ago, when I was selling my art at Art in the Park a woman asked me to create an illustration for her daughter, who was raisi...

I have fallen in love with my new backyard neighbor: A big hanging nasturtium.  ( En français, capucine. Po polsku, Nasturcya)   Each...

The staff, the airy greenhouse & the plants  welcomed us Sketchers to the Aubuchon Hardware Store & Nursery.  I asked t...

Road trips in the countryside from Midcoast Maine.  An idyllic corner on earth. This is the region of many small, organic farms,  2...

No matter where I go to sketch,  if there are people nearby ,  they will most likely enter my sketch. In Québec Ctiy we had o...

Perhaps one doesn't think of a public library as thrilling... but I WAS thrilled  visiting the newly rennovated Bibliothèque...

  Above: I turned a corner in the 7th arrondissemnt and caught my first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower. Today Paris is celeb...

For any one pleasurable tool or object that existed in the past,  there are now gazillions.  And so it is with Fountain Pens. ...

In Portland there used to be a most adorable, friendly & FRENCH café called  Mornings in Paris.  To see a post I made in 2012 ...