Sketch journal

When I taught my Maine workshop a few weeks ago, I had to do all the driving to Maine and back – 16 hours each way. I generally don’t enjoy driving on a long trip. It’s boring, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, like the time I blindly followed my GPS into a traffic jam in the […]

Want to create a daily sketching habit? Start drawing things in your ordinary life, and use these drawing prompts to commorate the art of everyday.

Absolutely not your typical journal, I was amazed by the content in them. Jose Naranja worked for may years as an aeronautical engineer, he then decided to start documenting his travels and his thoughts in a very artistic way, in his Moleskine books. By the way, now he creates his own books and has instructions on his blog site, on how you can make your own. The thing I like most about them, is the relationship between the drawings, photos and his thoughts expressed in calligraphy. His…

6″ x 8″, ink & watercolor on 140 lb. Kilimanjaro watercolor paper On Day 2 of our Paris visit, we were feeling pretty energetic, since we had gotten a good night’s sleep and were recovering from the time change. My friend, Karen, who was coming to the workshop in Provence, was in Paris, so she […]

Illustrator Samantha Dion Baker shares the benefits of pursuing a daily creative practice.

Gosh, it seems odd to be writing Fall when it's still hotter than blazes outside! All the same, the new classes start next week over at I...

Sketching my life and sharing the experience

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