Sometimes a holiday weekend is a great time to stay in the city and enjoy the peace and quiet. This Memorial Day weekend, I spent a few hours drawing in the park of my apartment complex. Even when you’re simply drawing as a relaxing way to pass the time, it’s good to think about the […]
View post →Here are some drawings from my first full reportage day in Barcelona. I woke up, had some coffee and a ham sandwich (of course, it’s the national food of Spain), and high-tailed it over to Guadi’s Park Guell. Well, maybe I didn’t really high tail it over there; once I got out of the subway […]
View post →So no post for quite a while, I have been on the road in Barcelona, Paris and, most recently, Portland Oregon for the first annual Urban Sketchers Symposium! Now that I’ve unpacked my bags and am getting (finally) over a cold I brought home with me from the West coast, I have a lot of […]
View post →I spent the last *unofficial* weekend of the summer in Chadds Ford, PA, home of the Brandywine school. The drawing above is from a jazz fest/wine tasting at the Chaddsford Winery. Wine from Pennsylvania – I never really considered it. I was at this winery two years ago and I do think that the wines […]
View post →Art in the Park – my apartment complex hosted this art in the park event – four painters had two hours to make a painting in front of the crowd. At the end of the two hours the audience voted for their favorite painter, who got a $1000 prize. It’s like Bravo reality tv is […]
View post →One of the best things about summertime is time to play! Days spent sitting on an old sheet in the grass, napping, reading, and of course, drawing. I love being able to mess around and try some new ways of expression, just for the fun of it. These drawings were made in the local park […]
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