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Tag Archives: sketchbooks
(More) Accordion Fold Samplers
Making accordion fold sampler books Continue reading
Posted in Collage, Food, How to, supplies, Supplies and Materials, teaching, tools, Workshop
Tagged art supplies, paper, pear, samples, sketchbooks, stillman & birn, workshop
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Urban Fall
In San Jose California, where I live, it’s always like this: warm, almost hot, at the start of November. And then just like that one day, the trees are gorgeous colors and the air is crisp. A couple of days … Continue reading
Posted in california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, san jose, Silicon Valley, watercolor
Tagged fall, fall colors, location drawing, sketchbooks, sketchjournal, suburbia, trader joes, urban sketch, watercolor
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MacPherson’s 2018 workshop in Vegas
In Las Vegas, playing with paper (and supplies). Continue reading
Posted in How to, supplies, Supplies and Materials, teaching, Workshop
Tagged art supplies, paper, samples, sketchbooks, stillman & birn, workshop
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Small Sketches from an eventful week
Bits and pieces from last week. My very last school Halloween Parade (next year I have two middle schoolers, no more school parades…) The usual share of Pikachus, pandas, dinosaurs, unicorns. The bawling baby (in a pull up) took the … Continue reading
Posted in books, california, Close to home, Construction, Everyday Sketches, Paintings, people, san jose, Silicon Valley
Tagged art show, family, halloween, heartbeat cafe, laloran, location drawing, samovar, sketchbooks, urban sketch, urban sketchers
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