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Posts from the ‘nature’ category

Nature Sketching – Being Curious

Sketching in nature is as simple as this. Sitting still long enough to observe what you see, hear, smell and feel. Being still enough that the birds and other critters decide you’re harmless and return to their usual habits.

How Wild is Your Garden?

Sketchbook Revival was new to me a month ago. I’m familiar with art journals and the limitless creative projects within them. But this was something a…

More Trees…

The spring season has arrived, and with any luck there will more sunny days and fewer rainy ones ahead. I’ve been doing more tree sketches, and…

Forest Dreams

Last summer I took a weekend watercolor class with Angie Grainger. She has developed a very intriguing technique and I had been waiting to get into…

Pears & Grapes

Summer is meant to be spent outdoors, and while I don’t consider myself a plein air painter yet, I love painting from nature. During the warmer…

Spring Serenade

Just when my sleep was improving, I find my dreamy nights interrupted by love songs between frogs. It happens this time of year, when forsythia is…