I recently spent a weekend hiking and sketching in eastern Oregon with a group from Oregon Botanical Artists. The weekend was generously hosted by two eastern Oregon botanical artists so we could get to know one another better. We spent the first day sketching at an area called the Metolius Preserve, where an effort is […]
Sketching Tiny
July 26, 2014 by · 2 Comments
Travel is for fun, right? At least my kind of traveling is…so one of my favorite things to do on the road is to make these tiny pencil sketches in my journal. They are not at all demanding to do and give me a quick result before I rush off to the next sight. All […]
My Sketching Kit
May 22, 2014 by · 4 Comments
My sketching kit is constantly evolving but I’ve hit upon a system recently that works better than anything I’ve tried yet so I wanted to tell you about it. Actually its an adjustment of a system I learned at a Richard Scott Sketching on Location workshop several years ago. For too long, I have had […]
Out of the Closet
May 15, 2014 by · 14 Comments
Not many people know that I was a closet artist for many years. Since childhood, one of my favorite pastimes has been drawing and as an adult I often turned to it as a way to relax, renew and comfort myself, particularly when I felt overwhelmed by the bustle of life. I saw it as […]
Artist’s Block? (version two, part one)
March 28, 2014 by · 1 Comment
I recently got a question from a reader that went like this: “I have heard about “writer’s block” but is there such a thing as artist’s block? I recently retired, have all the time in the world, the colored pencils, the water colors, all the supplies, and I can’t get going. It is like a […]
This blog is about my journey as a botanical artist--what I am learning, what inspires me and what I am currently drawing or painting. My desire is to continually hone my skills to better express my wonder and gratitude for the beauty of the creation around me in the Pacific Northwest (USA).