Each day this week, a different famous master artist is being covered with a short video first thing about the artist and then three differe...

Only 16 days remaining :-) Day 57 - Pretty self explanatory.  Worked in small Beta journal. Day 58 - Using my little bear to depict...

Day 54 - A small backpack illustration as I sit and think about accessories I could sketch to go with and characterize my little 2 inch bea...

For those who know me and follow along here, on Flickr, and Facebook, this "model" shows up quite often.  I love using Opal as a m...

Well I'm just past 2/3 of the way through this 75 Day Challenge / Round 2.  Am I feeling a bit more confident jumping in with pen and in...

Continuing my work from photos taken Saturday at the Barberville Pioneer Settlement, I worked these for my 75 day ink challenge. Day 50 -...

Yesterday, Shari Williams and myself went to Barberville, FL to check out this historical site representing "Old Florida".   Barbe...

All sketched in the Cartridge Paper sketchbook from the UK. Day 47 - Decided to sketch one of Terry's fishing lures he recently purch...

With these two days of sketching, I've tried to loosen up a bit.  Be a little "sketchier" than I normally tend to be. Both i...

Was an all nighter where I couldn't sleep..........so I sketched. While watching TV I paused this scene and sketched the house.  Worke...

Catching up with my 75 Day Sketch Challenge: Day 39 -   Hawk on our back fence watching for birds to come to our feeders.  He doesn't ...

At the back of the house along one wall near the Florida/Sun room was a row of yellow cannas.  We were forced to clear them out as they were...

For these two sketches, I used another Lamy I have that was loaded with the original blue ink cartridge that came with it.  The ink cartridg...

This is my playing comparing one curcumin flower with watercolor and ink with the other using  watercolor only.  I've become so use to p...

Almost half way through the challenge :-) Still working in my mini S&B Beta journal. Day 34 - Used one of the Uniball Vision gel pen...

One of the things I've learned the hard way is to test the claims companies make about their pens / inks being water resistance or water...

Normally I shy away from the wetter feeding nibbed pens but here lately have been trying to learn to work with them. This is a perfect exa...

Two more days of pen and ink only sketches.  Both in the Stillman & Birn Beta journal using two different pens with same ink. This ...

I worked this yesterday off and on to include early evening.  Kind of a fill in between doing other things.  And, I used one of the pages I ...

In my previous post I shared where I stained two pages in my Beta journal.  This is what I ended up doing on both pages. 75 Day - 28:  Fla...