InkTracks

I was reading a book on London and had a big need to draw instead. So I used a mechanical pencil to capture Jim in a rare moment of profile,...

I draw (using paint, putting it down directly as the drawing medium) the cat in colors I like, not particularly real. This sienna works real...

My main interest in sitting down to make an image is in the process of flowing color onto the paper. If the shapes work out, that's a bo...

Playing with Art-Kure watercolor brushes, which is permanent ink. On Aquabee superdeluxe paper.

Though he senses when I start to draw him and immediately has to move, changing his profile. He's talented at perceiving eye prints even...

Using Prismacolor art stix--like drawing with a hard crayon. On Strathmore drawing paper.

To see this large on the screen is like diving into perfect Caribbean water (this paint is the closest I'll come to that reality). It al...

Idle doodling, then it seemed to take an onion shape. I've been planting tulips, maybe that's the image source. Pencil on Strathmore...

With a fountain pen, I caught the cat napping here. Then I filled in color, happy to have the pen ink blur into shading. There's clearly...

I gessoed a journal page, splotched on horizontal streaks of thin w/c, finger-rubbed them vertically, then dabbed to intensify color areas. ...

I rarely attempt slow, layered watercolor glazing. I'd rather work fast and let the fluid flow, encouraging surprises to happen. But fas...

I finished the second pair of warmers from the Hacho yarn. These are short, a simple ribbed pattern (30 stitches on size 4 dpns.). I finishe...

I was chopping onions and managed to slice off a fingernail without too much flesh. Two days after the event, it looks worse than it feels, ...

November 5 and I have an outside geranium still blooming, with buds to come! Herbs are still available for cutting, too. That's how warm...