Category: work
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On Traveling Lightly
It’s the final full day at camp and we are blessed with a gorgeous day, yet again. There have been hikes and swimming and napping and sketching. There’s been a hot dog roast befitting the best of Copenhagen street foods and we are basically just milking the best out of the day. There is a…
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Like so many others
The last time we were renovating, we were relatively new to this house, busy with elementary school kids, eager to create a home for them that would grow with them. I catalogued those renovations back in the spring of 2008. Looking back to those posts and a host of others before and after on this…
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The Bedside Book
Recently I’ve participated in some online workshop-gatherings of a sort. Neither have been “classes” per se but rather more intended as an artistic shot in the arm – a path to creative exercise that isn’t my own regularly trodden path. It is good to get out of one’s own way sometimes. In this strange era…
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Day 2, in pictures and paint
It’s fun to see how others have weathered the isolation in recent months. Here it’s Rumikub. There have been many games, apparently. Locals remind themselves of what is lovely here, in spite of all. While on my morning walk/run there is a veritable parade of old fashioned cars, harkening to days bygone. It is good…
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Rainy day birds
It’s been a lovely wanderer of a rainy day. Storms rolling in and around. And, per the usual in recent weeks, we haven’t much we really need to do. Inspired by a recent post by a Welsh artist we follow over in the twitterverse called Sarah Evans, and with a few directions via this site…
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Processing carrots
Start with the shape of a carrot. “ish”. Add a “head” to your carrot shape. And then a wee shadow to ground your developing figure in space…. (for the record, my sunshine is found in the left of my little world.) Once your carrot is feeling like a figure, time to clothe it a bit. …
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Stay and Wonder
There is a lovely and welcoming new gallery space situated right downtown where things are busy and fancy like. Some of us “urban sketcher” types have wrangled a few of our recent drawings into proper frames and are having a show. There is even an Opening. Join us from 4-7 this Thursday afternoon at Columbia…
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A measure of quiet
Raw December day, wet, dripping with rain and fog. Last night’s few inches of snow turn to slush and mud. I opt for a day home sketching and drinking tea after a busy weekend of music-making, and other such peopling. I am deeply grateful for a flexible schedule. The paints have been fairly ignored recently,…
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A measure of quiet
Raw December day, wet, dripping with rain and fog. Last night’s few inches of snow turn to slush and mud. I opt for a day home sketching and drinking tea after a busy weekend of music-making, and other such peopling. I am deeply grateful for a flexible schedule. The paints have been fairly ignored recently,…