tea kettle and toaster oven

A quick sketch of the two most used items on the counter.

Pencil in the Bienfang sketchbook.

green scene

What's in front of me, but with scan shadows.

Green pencil on Canson drawing paper.

contortions of plumbing

Installing a new kitchen faucet. Always a challenge and a relief to get a plumbing job done.

And drawing a moving worker is a challenge too!

Pencil in the Aquabee Superdeluxe journal.

pillow pile

Started an idle sketch just waiting for a visitor, then turned it into something I actually liked.

Pen and w/c in the Aquabee Superdeluxe journal.

Drawing in Zion Park Lodge

Recording the rocks inside, while waiting for my horseback riding companions to return.

Pen and colored pencil on Fabriano Artistico.

different day, different angle

What, you thought I was done with this view?

Pencil in the Paper Blanks journal.

Kripalu bathroom

Fulfilling my plan to draw everything in front of me.

Pen in the Paper Blanks journal.

Kripalu closet

Small but all you need for a workshop visit.

Pen in the Paper Blanks journal.

cats and boxes

I found this sketch from 2011 in an old sketchbook. Don't even remember why we had boxes packed for moving.

But Chaucer loves any new horizontal place to lie on.

 Marker in a Hand Book journal.

color impact

I love bright colored poster art, so went with that feeling here. A fast brush-pen sketch, flagrant marker-fillin.

Something bright for a winter day. And the purse isn't red, the keys aren't green, the walls aren't yellow . . .

On Strathmore sketchpaper.

vest on a chair

Listening to Studio 360, a favorite podcast on people and works of the current stage, screen, books, and more, while drawing the moment. Pencil in an Aquabee SuperDeluxe sketchbook.

quick study of angles

I had to hang out in an office waiting for a student to arrive, so did this. Started out as an analysis of the lines and angles, then I had time to color it too.

In the journal.

the quilt and the reader

The stitching on the quilt called me to draw the scene.

Pencil in the Paperblanks journal.

interior scene

At a friend's cottage. And yes, it was cold enough in NH to run the woodstove all day. Sigh.

Charcoal on Strathmore drawing paper.

still burning the firewood

Getting closed to the end of the season though, with our wonderfully warm weather.

Pen and w/c in the Raffine sketchbook

interior scene

I started on one end of the sofa and was happy with how the proportions worked out and the scene is true to life with no preplanning. All this practice must be paying off!

Pen in the journal (bit of see-through writing for texture).

a 4-hour layover

gives lots of sketching time. Pen and w/c in the journal, last month.

Simple scan, which is too simple. Can't brighten out the writing that shows through.

patterning helps

A quick sketch of what was in front of me got better when I invented the pattern for the book. Note to self on how to enliven a dull piece.

notebook and leg

Upclose and personal.

Pen.

the color saves it

Sometimes the wonkiest drawing on the spongiest paper has such charm, that it just makes me smile.

Pen and w/c on that absorbent Asian paper in journals.