I’ve been finishing up some of the sketches I did while in Maine earlier this summer, and it’s been a lot of fun reliving that special time that I shared with my mother and five students. Three of them flew all the way from California to be there! All sketches were done in a 9″ […]
Month: July 2016
Road Trip Sketches
When I taught my Maine workshop a few weeks ago, I had to do all the driving to Maine and back – 16 hours each way. I generally don’t enjoy driving on a long trip. It’s boring, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, like the time I blindly followed my GPS into a traffic jam in the […]
Summerhill Sketching Hits the Road! (+ Corn & Basil Tart Recipe)
Every month I host “Sketching at Summerhill” here at my house. It offers an opportunity for my creative friends to get together, learn a little something, paint a bit, and enjoy some fun and fellowship away from the daily grind. I love having everyone come to my home in the summertime when the flowers are […]
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to Annie! She’s the winner of the drawing for an 8×12 matted print of one of my illustrated quotes. The quote she left in the comments on July 1 was “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C. S. Lewis Annie, please contact me at […]
Hand-Lettered Quote #6 + Print Giveaway!
And finally…. 8″ x 12″, drawn with Pitt Artist’s pens on Stillman and Birn Beta series paper If you’re a dog lover, you understand. They enrich our lives like nothing else can. With their unwavering love, they show us what true devotion is. Here’s our wonderful dog, Buckley. He brightens my days, makes me laugh, […]
Hand-Lettered Quote #5 + Print Giveaway!
Doesn’t this quote make you stop and think? 8″ x 12″, drawn with Pitt Artist’s pens on Stillman and Birn Beta series paper It holds true in so many areas of life, everything from how much money we have or how nice our house is, to how we look or how good we are at […]
Hand-Lettered Quote #4 + Print Giveaway!
It took me a year to finish all six quotes for my living room wall. I did three of them right off the bat, but then life got busy and this is what the wall looked like for almost a year… It was a little embarrassing when I had my Summerhill Sketching get-togethers each month. […]