InkTracks

I guess we need to call them lightcoils now. Have you ever traced the path of a compact fluorescent with your finger? It feels something lik...

I did a random abstract, cut out the part I liked best to paste in my journal--merely for a color boost. Then I saw a duck looking out at me...

Drawing slows me down to really see the object or the person I'm drawing. Frederick Franck said it perfectly in The Zen of Seeing : ...

I have a friend who once said that if she had to pack for exile to a desert island, one of the things she had to take was double-sticky tape...

Drawing practice can take an extensive a mix of skills and approaches to the subject. I'm working on two lately--trying to draw what I s...

This was a small woman in very large clothes toting a very large bag. I caught what I could in the moment, painted later. Tech pen and w/c o...

Cat and paint patches. I'm playing with unfamiliar shades of Daniel Smith paint here. Mostly deciding to go back to my usual hues.

I rarely draw from a photo. As a way to develop the "seeing" part of the drawing process, I avoid copying an already flattened ima...

Yet again, a hunched cat. But I'm faster now at accurately capturing the proportions before the model moves. My usual pen, paint and pap...

I've made many mini-paint palettes , but this is my favorite. From the dollar store, get a multi-hole eye shadow kit and scrape out the ...

There was such a long line for the register at Michael's, I had time to draw the man in front of me in my new Windpower sketchbook with ...

I repeatedly pick up those journals with the interesting paper from Asia that's cream-colored with bits embedded in it--flicks and stra...

The curled sleeping cat provides a constant form for my main goal--stroking on a variety of paint to see how they flow and mix. Chaucer is a...

Drawing something that stays perfectly still is a real luxury. May you carve out a fabulous time on Valentine's Day. Tech pen and w/c on...