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A Sketch from Florence

I didn’t get in as much sketching as I wanted in Florence, but I did spend a wonderful afternoon in the garden of Palazzo Vivarelli Colonna. I understand that it’s […]

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More From My Sketchbook Project – Florence

Florence is my favourite city, so I had to include […]

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Sketching in Casperia, Lazio

Casperia is a very small hill town northeast of Rome, and I spent the first few days of my trip in this restful town. I spent an entire day on […]

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More From My Sketchbook Project – Vicenza

Palladio is the famous son of Vicenza – his architecture […]

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A Sketch from Rome

I’m in Italy for the next few weeks, touring around and sketching whenever I can. Over the next few weeks, you’re going to see a lot of Italian sketches as […]

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Urban Sketching Excursions

One of the wonderful things about spring is being able to get back outside with a sketchbook and pen… and not becoming an instant ice cube. It’s still a bit […]

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Shipped That Sketchbook!

Whew! It was a mad dash to get my sketchbook done and mailed for the March 31st deadline of The Sketchbook Project. As ready as I was to get this […]

Courses

Doing It Daily: March 8 – 14

Bought a new pen, and tried it out on several of this week’s drawings. The pen is a Platinum Desk Pen, extra fine nib. I saw this pen while taking […]

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Sketchbook Project Preview

For the last several weeks, I’ve been cramming to get my sketchbook done for The Sketchbook Project 2015 deadline. I waited, as per usual, until the last possible moment to […]

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Doing It Daily: March 1 – 7

March has been really busy, but my daily drawing continues. I got way behind in adding colour to some of these drawings until yesterday. What a blissful day – me […]

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Doing It Daily – February 22 – 28

Almost all my daily sketches from this week were started very late at night, after a long day of drawing for another large project. And most of them are either […]

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3-Point Watercolour

In our watercolour class, we were challenged to paint a subject where there were 3 obvious points of perspective – 2 sides and the third being either from below or […]

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Doing It Daily – February 15 – 22

This week’s crop of daily sketches were a challenge to complete, because I’m on a deadline for another big drawing project (more on this in later posts). So once again, […]

Friends Art

My First (Finished) Negative Painting

Last year, I attempted a negative painting (painting the negative space around subjects in layers) but abandoned it because it hurt my brain, being so against my usual way of painting. And […]

Inspiration

Doing It Daily – February 8 -14

Doing my daily sketches last week took me in interesting directions – the subjects were so varied. Turns out that I did have to plan a few sketches in advance […]

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Doing It Daily – February 1 – 7

A month into my daily drawing and I’m hitting a bit of a wall – the “Wall” being that sometimes the prompt subjects don’t motivate me to draw. And especially […]

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Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan

capturing the places I love with a tiny brush

My Art

A Sketch from Florence

More From My Sketchbook Project – Florence

Sketching in Casperia, Lazio

More From My Sketchbook Project – Vicenza

A Sketch from Rome

Urban Sketching Excursions

Shipped That Sketchbook!

Doing It Daily: March 8 – 14

Sketchbook Project Preview

Doing It Daily: March 1 – 7

Doing It Daily – February 22 – 28

3-Point Watercolour

Doing It Daily – February 15 – 22

My First (Finished) Negative Painting

Doing It Daily – February 8 -14

Doing It Daily – February 1 – 7