After the big disappointment with the Magnolia, I decided to redirect my interest in other things to sketch. One of the days I went out to c...

So far I have seen and monitored two buds that opened and went through the stages up to all petals turning brown.  There was another bud rea...

When we moved into the house we first rented and then purchased, we cut down all but about 6 feet of trunk of a scraggly looking magnolia we...

Continuing with the monthly theme of "Items I tend to Collect," I worked this pencil sketch of three gnomes.  I have two sets of m...

For my minimum of one digital for the month, I decided to play with different styles using my miniature dog and bear as models. Using a digi...

For my goal to work at least one straight pen and ink sketch for the month, I started sketching these simple flowers.  I started in one of t...

No idea what prompted me to look into family crests but I spent awhile looking at those, wedding crests, and mono crests.  I was intrigued b...

Alexa chose the number assigned to "Items I tend to Collect" which covers quite a few ideas I can sketch this month.  I have quite...

To start off the month, I worked this graphite sketch. This is the stage of our Magnolia as of 4/18/21 we tend to miss out on with the few f...

Just wanted to share......... Over the years I have tried various papers for printing art projects and frameable reprints.  Most of the pape...

One of our neighbors with children raise Monarchs and while Terry was out walking Miya, he was called over to check out butterflies emerging...

I read today where someone was asking for advice dealing with creative blocks.  We all go through them and one way I've managed to work ...

When the guys returned from their trip to Key Largo, both came into the house bearing gifts.  Yesterday I shared the Iguana that Travis brou...

When the guys returned yesterday from Key Largo, they both had souvenir gifts brought back for me. Travis brought back an iguana and Terry b...

Attempting again to work in my journal, I managed this page of lemons at their early stage of growth.  I worked this thinking and writing ab...

Think I'm heading into another possible "recharge period" I evidently need after being so productive the last few months.   Al...

Thought I would make a post to inform those who follow my blog by email that after July 2021, that feature will be discontinued.  At this ti...

After working on my Ipad, I wanted to do some work in my journal.  This started out with a pencil sketch which was off a bit on the two righ...

Yesterday our neighbor gave Terry Tai dumplings, Tea Eggs he makes, and a cake of some sort made from tea with a cream center.  The cake is ...

Well, the jury's back............cross-hatching is proving to be my least favorite thing to do...at least with ballpoint.  If I have to ...