On Sunday, Roberta and I took a botanical drawing class “What a Bee Sees” at a local historical site, Eldon House.  The teacher was Sally Glanville and she began by having us go out into the gardens to clip a few flowers to use as models for our work. (Originally the class was going to [...]

I got so busy for a couple weeks that I haven’t really had any time to do some sketching but I made some time for it this weekend!  These are sketches I did of what I saw while hiking around Westminster Ponds. Water Lily with Lily Pads Dragonfly I still have work to do on [...]

This is kind of a stylized sketch this time.  She makes me think of someone out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald book. Check out everyone else’s sketches here:  http://bluechairdiary.blogspot.com/2011/06/sunday-sketches_18.html

Last Thursday night I went to our local art museum for a free program they have there called Drawing in the Galleries.  The program is led by Kelly, an artist and museum employee.  We’re taken into the galleries to do some drawing.  Each week she chooses a theme for the evening and then leads us [...]

I finally made it to a session of “Drawing in the Galleries” at my local art museum.  It’s a great free program hosted by an artist and museum employee, Kelly.  She starts off the evening with a warmup activity and then some timed sketching exercises based around a theme.  Our warmup activity was The Exquisite [...]

I took an online class with Suzi Blu  – well actually I took a couple of them, first focusing on creating stylized faces and then on mermaids.  Here is one of the sketches I recently did using her techniques and tips.  I’m thinking of trying out some of egg tempera painting techniques I’ve been learning [...]

I’ve decided in order to motivate myself to keep sketching AND to keep sharing them, that I’m instituting Saturday Sketches. As taught by one of my art teachers, I will sometimes use someone else’s art as practice for my sketching.  I loved this piece when I saw it in a book and decided to give [...]

  I don’t usually share my sketches.  I’m not sure why but I’m pretty shy and insecure about sharing them with others but I’ve been doing more of it lately and decided I really needed to suck it up and finally let others see some of them.  This is one I’m working on of Eldon [...]