Taking one of my newest lucky bamboos, I decided to do more practice using watercolor pencils from tips and suggestions after taking Cathy J...

Saturday I received another new pen I've been eyeballing for some time.  I've read so many good things about Edison pens that I deci...

For the last couple of weeks I've lacked motivation to do much with sketching or painting.  The interest is there but not the energy.  I...

This page was done in the Meandering Journal using W&N watercolor and a Micron 005 and 01 for a little ink line work. Pencil sketch fi...

Funny but this sketch and subject behind it brings to mind the Song "Girl Watcher" and the tune has been stuck in my head all day....

This is a little (and I do mean little) sketch done in a 3 x 4" journal that was sent to me as a gift from a very dear friend living in...

It's been a long time since I've tried painting one of these where you randomly place colors on a sheet and then create the shapes b...

As usual, I'm playing catch-up sharing what I worked over the last couple of weeks in January. These were all done finishing up the sq...

Cathy Johnson hosts a once a month (third Saturday each month) virtual sketchcrawl inviting people from all over to sketch something around ...

These were done yesterday early evening and into the wee hours of the morning. With the boys home, we've been sitting up late (well so...

I finally got around to loading my newest Konrad pen but ran into a phenomenon I had only read about until it actually happened. There was...

Today I have been in a playful mood just taking brush with paint and basically slapping it onto paper in a rough shape of this bear.  I had ...

Back home it's been snowing and I'm feeling a bit envious and definitely home sick.  I miss the crisp fresh air of cold temperatures...

Here are two more I've done with pen and ink only (no preliminary pencil guidelines).  It feels like it's getting a little easier fo...

The last couple of days I've been concentrating on trying to capture things quickly onto paper using ink only.  At this point I'm no...

We've been watching two bushes form buds and growing with maybe two or three looking like they could open up soon (well as of this morni...

Whatever type of tree this is, it's really neat with the colors and markings on the trunks and branches.  I've never seen this befor...

I'm finding myself tensing up again trying to get my illustrations and sketches just so so.  The fear in doing that is feeling pressure ...

One of the FB groups I'm in - Artists Journal Workshop - one of the admins started a January challenge with a list of prompts for each d...