In and Out of The Studio

A Sample of my Accordion Journal A few pages from my accordion journals that I'm keeping during this "stay at home" t...

I hope everyone is doing well in this crazy time of quarantine!  Have you had some time on your hands to get some projects done?  Have you b...

So Many Distractions I'm trying to get things straightened around for my classes to begin next week.  There are so many distraction...

A Painting in my Sketchbook Trying to get in a few more sketchbook days before cooler weather sets in.  This is a very sad looking cotta...

House Shapes from my Sketchbook I took a workshop earlier this week from Sandra Strohschein.  It was great  -  lots of information.  ...

Painting on Another Porch Painting with the Walloon Lake Group before having lunch on the porch overlooking the lake. Webster: ...

A Great Place to Paint on a Hot Day It's been pretty warm this summer in northern Michigan, but there is always a shady spot and al...

A Fun and Productive Weekend Spiffing Up My Studio Classroom With the help of our granddaughters, we finished installing a new ceilin...

Journal Pages A couple more journal pages from March.   It was very sunny part of the day today, and that is really a welcome sight...

A Couple of Days in March   Finally we are beginning to get some sunshine, the huge piles of snow are melting, and we can even see some...

Small Value Study and Painting I love doing quick little "thumbnail sketches", and especially like doing them on toned paper ...

September 2018, Mackinac Island Book Binding and Watercolor Journaling Sketchbooks Made by the Workshop Participants We took a little...

My New Journal  and a Page From Our Book Binding Workshop Last week we did a two day book binding workshop.  It is so much fun to pick...

The Steps in the Garden  Behind the Woman's Council This is one of my favorite places to paint in Bay View.  The light is always ch...

A couple of evenings ago I went down to the waterfront to walk.  I went east for about a half mile, and when I turned around to go back, ...

Early Fall Garden The flowers in front of this cottage are hanging in there  -  still colorful. The little door on the left has alw...

Painting in the Evening It's getting late in the season to be painting in the evening.  This is really not what was going on with t...

Rooftops on Stephen's Lane It finally warmed up to about sixty degrees Friday, and there was some sun, so we headed out with our sk...

My Pal in the Studio Julio loves paper, pencils, pens, and paint brushes! I have to shut him out of the studio when I have a class bec...

My Favorite Spot in the House? When I did this watercolor sketch, the stove was new and it was soup season.  It's the beginning of ...

Little thumbnail sketches  finished off with a couple of swipes of watercolor.    They are continuous line drawings done with a Uni-...

Our Assignment "Where I Paint" This is a continuous line drawing in ink with watercolor My classes will be working on stil...

View Down Ready Street and a Burger A couple of weeks ago we took a little trip up to the Marquette area.  Marquette is a mining town on...

The View Out the Front Window When I did this little watercolor sketch in my journal a few days ago, the Bay was actually this blue  ...

A Page from my Journal The California kids are here, and we took a trip up beautiful highway 119 to Sturgeon Bay.  The mosquitoes ...

Wonky Little Chair After I had drawn this, I noticed how wrong the angle of the middle spindle is.  I could have made a little patch and...

Okay, I'm done hibernating.   I've had my spring greenhouse fix, and I'm ready to plant and paint  -  not necessarily in...

Not Quite Snowed In We've had a couple of days without snow, and things are looking a little dirty.  It isn't any where near mel...

Snowy Tree Demo Because snow is what we see here in Northern Michigan (and pretty much all we see), my Thursday students wanted a snowy ...

Sketchbook Page This is a very quick contour drawing loosely painted with watercolor.  I did this after my class left on Thursday. ...

Succulents In class this week we were trying to see how simple we could keep it and still show some separation of shapes  -  ...

Let it Snow A snowy night at Grandma and Grandpa's, lots of art supplies, and a cozy corner to sit in and create.  It would have bee...

Simple Still Life I'm really not a fan of watercolor underpainting.  But just for the fun of it, in class this morning, we painted ...

This is a portfolio/folder that I made yesterday to hold small pieces of watercolor paper.  I had seen a similar one online, but I didn...

This is another go at yesterday's composition. I "painted" the objects with clear water, and then started dropping in th...

 Still Painting Pears and Persimmons  -  and a Lime This is a small watercolor  (4 3/4 X  7 3/4).  I did the sketch viewing the fru...

After the past few days of lots of cooking and eating, it seemed appropriate to post this collage. We have pretty much cleaned up the t...

Cathy's Zinnias and Cosmos This is a demonstration in my sketchbook, done last summer in one of our bookbinding classes.  This is ...

Pumpkin Pie We are cooking, eating, playing dominoes, eating, talking  .  .  . Happy Thanksgiving!

From my Sketchbook I have posted this before, but it's day 27,  Thanksgiving Eve .   .   .   I've been baking pies today, g...

Contour Drawing This is a contour drawing (continuous line) of one of my little travel palettes, brush, and water container.  As you c...

Looking Down the Street This is what it has been looking like around here for the past couple of days.  This storm going across the co...