In yesterday's post, I mentioned adding a surprise to the strawberry spread..... The surprise is in the lower lefthand corner of the page where the real strawberry was sitting. And the surprise, you ask? You can't really tell from the lousy photo, but the ink is a very dark chocolate-y brown! First, I took a piece of scrap watercolor paper and tore it...
Strawberries (No pencil)Watercolor with ink for the text onlyDouble SpreadPineapple Journal I spent the day in the technological world of web sites yesterday. All day. It made me cranky. The best antidote I know to getting over crankiness is to paint. Here's the results of my "fix." And just like painting outside on location, painting live in your own kitchen can be an...
I like surprise...........compartments, unexpected finds and delightful treasures! So when I recently read an article by Jacqueline Newbold in the new Cloth Paper Scissors Pages Magazine, I decided to give some of her ideas a whirl in my own style..... Cafe Beignet Sketch On the day we arrived in NOLA, it was blues skies. Within the hour it was clouding up and quickly started...
Our last full day in NOLA dawned cold and clear with a strong wind from the northwest that robbed the warmth from the sunshine. However, that morning we spent touring the Beauregard-Keyes house (Keyes rhymes with eyes) and then sketching in the walled gardens. The walls made it possible for us to sketch without being totally miserable! St. Francis in the Beauregard-Keyes Walled GardensSketched...
Andi, Gatlin and SusiePossible Painting Thumbnail Let me tell you a story about a couple of dogs named Gatlin and Andi..... Gatlin was a mountain dog. When Chris and I met her, she was homeless and wild. Scared wild. She was so afraid of people, no one could get near her. We were on vacation up in Gatlinburg and had been visiting some...
