Travel-Inspired Art

More from my Sketchbook Project – Rome

From my Sketchbook Project, here are the Rome drawings – all of them focused on the Vatican. St. Peter’s Square: During the day there are so many people in the […]

Miniature Art

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 […]

Miniature Art

More From My Sketchbook Project – Florence

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

Miniature Art

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 […]

Miniature Art

More From My Sketchbook Project – Vicenza

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

Miniature Art

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 […]

Miniature Art

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 […]

Miniature Art

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 […]

Miniature Art

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 […]

Miniature Art

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

The Road Ahead

One of our contributors, Deb Milimaka-Miles just celebrated her birthday and has also just embarked on a new exploration of oil painting (hopefully we’ll see her new work posted here […]

Miniature Art

Contrasting Sketches from a Niagara Weekend

Two different types of sketches done on the same day, while checking out the Niagara region this past fall. Took my time on the Willowbank Estate and went in for […]