In and Out of The Studio

Poor Straggly Thing My bright orange geranium is pretty wimpy looking.  I'll try to baby it through the winter and see how it does...

A Page in my Sketchbook This is a page in a 9 X 12 sketchbook.  The drawings are done with a 6B drawing pencil.   The houses are value a...

Some of my Lunches from Summer Workshops In my journal workshops I usually have the participants paint their brown bag lunches ...

  Colored Pencils for my Birthday I posted this old black and white picture very early on in my blog.  Yesterday, with my paper-makin...

 Paper Making We made paper today from dryer lint.  It was not a pretty job.  It was slimy, chunky, stringy, hairy (pet and human)...

  Sketchbook Demo Back in July I did a two-day workshop at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. This sketch was done to demonstrate co...

 Color This is an old medicine cabinet where I keep bottles of acrylic paint. It's  a bright spot on the wall, and seeing the co...

Flowers at the Harbor in Harbor Springs This was a demonstration back in June for a one day workshop with a groupof great painters who m...

Bookshelves in my Classroom/studio I love looking at pictures of artists' studios, so I thought I'd post this picture of a corne...

Sketchbook Pages from Summer Today is the first day of firearm deer hunting season in Michigan.  This is almost a national holiday i...

More Fruit We painted small still lifes in class today.   This was a color demonstration that I did using only prussian blue, quinacrido...

Pears, Persimmons, and a Lime This watercolor sketch is painted in my journal on Aquarius II paper.  This journal is a Coptic (my versio...

 View of the Bay I almost expected the street lights to come on this afternoon. It is dark, dark, dark here.  I went to the grocery an...

The Last of the Colorful Trees I painted this tree this afternoon in my sketchbook to capture the last of the bright leaves.  The sky an...

Bay View This is a continuous line drawing / watercolor sketch done in my sketchbook one morning this past summer while I was waiting ...

Persimmon  I was craving color after doing some value sketches in gray scales.  Nothing cures that craving like a persimmon.  This was...

Drawn on Bogus Rough Sketch Paper "Bogus Rough". Don't you love that?  It just sounds gutsy, doesn't it?  Actually it ...

Chartpak Markers on Drawing Paper "Value" means the lights and darks In this week's classes we are discussing, and...

The Recycled Sculpture at the Transfer Station I took my sketchbook to the recycle center yesterday when I went on a field trip with our...

A Sketch from this Summer This was from one of our bookbinding workshops.  On Day two of the workshop, we paint in the books that we ...

Margaret's Birch Trees This page in my journal was a demonstration during a class this past summer.  We were painting at a student...

Demonstrations of light shapes in dark, and dark shapes in light. Awhile ago we did these in my classes.  I love little house shapes.  T...

Watercolor Demo on Arches 140 cold press paper This is a small watercolor sketch that I did for my class a couple of weeks ago.  We hav...

Some of my Art Supplies Okay.  I signed up for "blogging everyday for the month of November".  I know I'm supposed to put ...

  Concentrating on Lights and Darks   -  7 X 7 This past week we were talking about values in my classes.  Values, as in lights and da...

Black eyed Susans and Apples  -  Demo I started my new season of weekly classes this week, and picked some black eyed susans for a lit...

Demonstration Page in my Sketchbook It seems as if white flowers are the most requested demonstration in the summer watercolor journal c...

A New Style of Journal at least for me This journal has an open spine with ribbon as part of the spine construction.  I put drawing pa...

My Latest Project I have wanted a chalkboard wall for a long time.  What better place than in my studio/classroom! It was as easy a...

The Old School House at the Interlochen Center for the Arts The summer has been speeding by so quickly!  I'm going back through my s...

Painting in Bay View It's been so long since I have blogged, let's see if I remember how to do it. Last week I finished up a b...

Lilacs for a Still Life Finally  -  I think we have spring.   I had to scrape car windows yesterday morning, but the sun is shining, a...

A Glass Vase of Pocket Watches I had these pocket watches in a box in a drawer  -  never to be seen.  I put them in a square glass conta...

Sketching at Dinner This is a quick little watercolor sketched at dinner a couple of nights ago.  The blocks of color on the rig...

  In a previous post, Terry asked if I could show the photographs and how they were cropped to use as reference to work out the compo...

Closed  -  Opening  -  Opened I have no idea what this is called.  It is a folded journal, but I'm sure it has a name   -  I mean, t...

Demonstrations from Recent Classes I am always talking about keeping things simple.  KEEP IT SIMPLE.  Don't try so hard. Because i...

A Demonstration Using a Different Triad The watercolor sketch on the left was done for Wednesday's class using the colors mentione...

Today's Demonstration  -  lower left painting Keeping in mind that this was just a trial run, I sketched and painted this very quick...

Demonstrations in Class Last week we worked on very simple, small paintings to work out the lights and darks (values) and then balance ...

Good Journal Making Weather We have been having lots of snow and cancellations  -  good weather to be inside making  sketchbook/journals...

Demos Done in Classes This Week These paintings each measure about 6 X 8.  They started out as demonstrations of contour drawing, but...