In and Out of The Studio

Here is part of the group at Kauffman Flower Farm - all cozy on the porch, journaling. I always say it never rains on my journal classes...

HOT HOT HOT These journal pages were done at Three Pines Studio and Gallery in Cross Village. It was unbelievably hot - for Northern Mi...

Walk by the River No, I did not take off on vacation after doing the Flower Farm Luncheon/Journal Class. I have done 5 watercolor classes...

This is a beautiful spot to spend the afternoon. Monday afternoon I held a watercolor sketchbook journal class at Kauffman Flower Farm nort...

Celebrate the beauty of this season Up North and the inaugural printing of the Kauffman Flower Farm's annual poster featuring the waterc...

The garden next door is always beautiful, but right now I especially like the blue bachelor buttons in front of the red hot pokers (the ora...

It was too wet this morning for the watercolor class to paint outside. I brought in a few pots of flowers and the class did a great jog of...

I have it all mapped out so I know where to go and when. If I lost my color coded calendar with all the little stickies on it, I'd be...

This is a quick little sketch of some poppies next door. They lasted quite awhile - we hadn't had rain. They are gone now, and so are...

After a long day of planting I just plopped my weary body down in my periwinkle-blue Adirondack chair with my sketchbook. It was fun, and...

It was a beautiful evening to take supper down to the waterfront. This little painting in my Moleskine is certainly a contrast to this one...

LOOK OUT, SUMMER - HERE I COME! I wrapped up my Spring classes this week, and will start the summer ones in a couple of weeks. I will t...

Okay - this is what I mean when I say the little paintings I bring home in my sketchbook are much more meaningful to me than any photograph...

It is that time of year - the promise of summer , but what's with all this RAIN!!!??? I am SICK of it. I picked these lilacs for my W...

Yes, I know - I say how much I dislike Yupo "paper", and here I am posting more little paintings done on it. It's plastic, ...

I am playing around with some trillium sketches and paintings. I'm just doing some very small experiments. The one on the left is done ...

This is the last of the toned paper paintings. I think it is a good exercise in negative painting, layering, and wet into wet mixing. H...

Here are a couple of paintings I just finished up - I think. I always have to live with them for awhile to see how I really feel about the...

This California Poppy greeted me at the back door yesterday when I came home from running errands. My friend, Karen, had left it there ...

My first trip of the season to Willsons Greenhouse. They don't have a lot of color yet, but, boy, did it smell good! Heliotrope, primro...

Is it Spring yet? Yesterday was a wonderful day to sit outside sketching with friends . At last the grass is green! It happened, literall...

This is the first crocus I have seen in our yard this spring. What a beautiful day here today - very warm for April - a little over 70 d...

"Release your ego's desire for perfection" Danny Gregory I am even releasing my pride by posting this for the whole world to...

I've been working on sketches - getting some compositions ready for painting. I am going through my watercolor journals, trying to r...

These little sketches were done as an experiment using markers and colored pencils. I read somewhere about someone using markers for the ...

These are three little paintings for a friend. I thought I could talk myself into posting them as my "painting of the week" -...

I am playing around with color again in my Moleskine sketchbook. The page with the lamp and geranium was done using Pitt Brush Pens, colored...

On The Back Porch I am going to have to live with this for a few days to see if it is finished. I have been playing with it too long, and ...

I wanted to post this sketch because . . . well, because I have yet to finish a painting this week. Still working on last week's paint...

I AM WORKING ON IT. I had hoped to have a new painting to post today, but I am still working on it. In the meantime I will post the sketch...

Drawing Class. This afternoon my drawing class did contour drawings of bookcases and all the STUFF in them. They all did a beautiful job, ...

This painting is watercolor on clayboard . I have done this scene previously as a sketch and as a small study. This isn't very large e...

I am posing here in black and white with my c o l o r e d pencils - I was probably about five years old. They were wonderful - the n...

Just finished this watercolor. It is an 11 X 15 of another Mackinac Island Street. Can you tell I am thinking summer? Other paintings of ...

And Speaking of Color . . . (Which I was in the previous post) This is another sketchbook page with some drawings of the little Altoid...

Okay. I need to post something. I want the whole world to know I have been working. Yes, I want the whole world to know, but I will sett...

A Summer Still Life. This was actually a summer set up for a class. I started the painting as a demo, but I rarely finish demos in class...

My mind is going a hundred miles an hour. Think how much one misses at that speed! Some people consider winter in Northern Michigan ...