Over the years I have bought handmade paper.  I have a very large collection that is waiting to be used.  I keep saving this paper thinking...

  My friend loves bunnies.  This is a birthday present for her.    

lots of sheep, but I only could catch one.     

  I think I like this hyena better in blue and I feel like I got his expression better in this drawing.  

Today I worked on hyena's.  I sketched him in oil pastels, watercolor pencils, watercolors, and pencil.  This is what I finally came up...

Artist trading card of a swan feeding her baby.      

Whenever I go on long plane rides I usually like to take blank artist trading cards 3.5 x 2.5 to do small drawings or paintings.  These car...

  Today I made this journal  modeled after a moleskin yearly calendar journal.  The size is 3.5 x 5.5 with 9 signatures giving me a total of...

I had bought a Stillman and Birn Beta Series journal that I took with me to Paris, but ended up not using.  So today I finally did.  I can ...

  From a distant this guy looked like a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, but as he got closer he didn't have the markings of a CKCS.  M...

It felt so good today to pull out my watercolor pencils and draw.  I sketched these gladiolus with a black sharpie and then used wc pencils...

  I drew this guy from a photo .   Didn't labor over the details and just let the sharpie do it's thing.  One thing about using s...

Contour drawing using a fine tip retractable sharpie on mix media paper .  I found using the sharpie really helped me not to labor over wh...

While on vacation I saw many amazing faces and wished I could draw them.   So I decided instead of wishing and I'm just going to  draw ...

Paris is a dog friendly city.  Dogs are everywhere.  The metro, parks, cafes, pet stores,  and statues of dogs.  These are a few of the dog...

One of the things I love about Paris is the creative people you come across on a daily bases.  I was walking around the Eiffel Tower and sp...

I'm on my way home from Paris.  I'm not sure if the cold weather or not warm enough clothes got me down,but Paris was not the same t...

Today is my last day in Paris before we head home tomorrow.  It's been a very long week and I'm glad to be heading home to warmer te...

Spent the day running around taking photos of store fronts and the wares they display in the windows. I can see lots of paintings coming out...

 Today I spent my day looking for art stores.  When in Paris I usually go to Sennelier art store right across from the Seine river on the le...