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 […]
More From My Sketchbook Project – Vicenza
Palladio is the famous son of Vicenza – his architecture […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Art We Wonderful by Marion Younan 