January 14, 2018 – Daily Sketches influenced by Steve Mumford Week Two of the Year of Influence Challenge is complete and the webpage that documents my week of daily sketches influenced by the work of illustrator Steve Mumford is posted. Here is the link: Week Two influenced by Steve Mumford
November 25, 2015 Joanie Springer paved the way for me to teach in Santa Rosa several years ago. We met through our blogs. A fabulous friendship has grown, nurtured by encouragement, inspiration and spending our days and nights together talking art, sharing ideas, techniques, current challenges and new directions. Joanie and Victor relaxing …
November 15, 2015 – en plein air, ink scribble technique while sailing. Color is added later. Laura at the tiller in San Francisco Bay, CA – ink scribble Sketching while sailing can be challenging. A few quick ink lines to capture the energy of the moment is all that’s necessary to trigger the memory in …
It’s great when some of the irons in the fire lead to results. Family has been purchased by the Healing Arts Committee of Atlanticare in Egg Harbor, New Jersey to hang in the newly renovated OB/GYN space! I’m thrilled. The second good news is that Dorchester Center for the Arts in Cambridge, Maryland has scheduled me to …
My sketchbooks are filled with pen sketches of passengers sitting around, waiting to catch a flight, hoping there will be no delays and that their luggage will arrive along with them at their destinations. Weather can play a major role in flight cancelations. Atop Potato Ridge in Mendocino National Forest, it was a gaggle of …
Still plugging away at the Three Weeks in Provence Art Journal – 2014. As tedious as it is to make sense of my photos, drawings and journal entries, I’m enjoying pulling it all together into a format I will be able to share with the other artists who shared the experience of Susan Abbott’s workshop in Les …