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Poppies, Poppies and more Poppies!
Last week was poppy week. I taught a workshop based on a request to share this “loose and free” approach to flowers. What I loved most of all is that even though we all followed the same process and worked … Continue reading
Posted in Paintings, studies, teaching, watercolor, Workshop
Tagged fall, floral, halloween, painting, poppies, pumpkin, skull, watercolor, watercolor painting
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Pumpkins and Skulls
Boo! Continue reading
Posted in watercolor
Tagged gourd, halloween, painting, pumpkin, skull, watercolor, watercolor painting
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Travel-Sketching Oaxaca: Life on the Streets
Travel-Sketching Oaxaca: Life on the Streets Continue reading
Posted in oaxaca, people, Sketch Journal, teaching, Travel, Workshop
Tagged location drawing, mexico, oaxaca, people sketching, perspective, reportage, travel sketching, urban sketching, watercolor painting, workshop
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Travel-Sketching Oaxaca: My Favorite Church and a Colorful Street
Travel-Sketching Oaxaca: My Favorite Church and a Colorful Street Continue reading
Posted in oaxaca, people, Sketch Journal, teaching, Travel, Workshop
Tagged architecture, location drawing, mexico, oaxaca, perspective, reportage, santo domingo, travel sketching, urban sketching, watercolor painting, workshop
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In the Sierras
2 days of painting in the Sierras. Continue reading
Posted in california, Paintings, Travel, watercolor
Tagged location drawing, painting, plein air, sierras, watercolor, watercolor painting
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In a Cemetery with South Bay Sketchers
Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, South Bay Sketchers and my no-dewey-Decimal book categorizing system. Continue reading
A Summer Tradition (and line versus no line)
Thinking about line and no-line in the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 challenge. Continue reading
Posted in california, challenge, Close to home, Figure Drawing, Paintings, people, san jose, Silicon Valley, Summer, watercolor
Tagged #30x30DirectWatercolor2018, challenge, direct watercolor, directwatercolor, location drawing, people sketching, petroglyph, petroglyph lounge, urban sketch, urban sketchers, watercolor painting
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Weekend in Yosemite: Part 2
More from Yosemite National Park. This is a less-known view of Mirror Lake. Its probably only weeks now before it dries into a meadow. The more famous Mirror Lake vista reflects Half Dome in the still waters, but I sketched … Continue reading
The week I didn’t sketch
It’s Friday evening and I feel like I haven’t really sketched all week, so I go look at my Instagram stream where I post stuff as I make it and it looks like I have sketched, it’s just that it’s … Continue reading
Posted in books, california, Close to home, Everyday Sketches, Figure Drawing, Paintings, people, san jose, Silicon Valley, Vintage Signs
Tagged almaden, beach, book, boulevard coffee, california, coffee, coffee shop, figure drawing, mount umunhum, natural bridges, natural bridges state beach, san jose, sign of the times, tech museum, watercolor, watercolor painting
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Almaden Quicksilver County Park
A couple of weeks ago, I painted with friends at Almaden Quicksilver County Park. We picked what was probably the foggiest morning in the South Bay. Visibility was low, humidity was high and the view we planned on painting was … Continue reading
Sketch Away: Travels with my sketchbook 