In last week’s email, I talked about packing an art kit for traveling. I was thinking about that because I was packing for a trip to Montréal and Quebec City, Canada. I went with a […]
Category Archives: Travel
Back on the Bus!
Now that I have my travel kit packed, how do I use it? My goal is to record impressions for myself, not to produce finished art. What I remember most about my trips are the […]
Ready, Set, Go!
June is the beginning of travel season for me. Of course, I may travel year-round, but the feeling is a holdover from school days and the excitement of summer vacation. I’ve been cleaning out and […]
Barnwell State Park
The South Carolina Park Service offers an Artist in Residence program at some of the state parks. Last fall I applied and was accepted for a stay at Barnwell State Park in the rural area […]
Caribbean Colors
Last week my husband and I went on our annual vacation to a warm place, this time to Grand Cayman. I took a small watercolor kit and had big painting plans. At first I […]
Wildacres Morning
In a recent workshop with Caroline Jasper, the exercise was to create depth in the painting. I allowed the foreground to come forward by using the strongest value contrasts and leaving larger patches of the […]
Yellow Irises
These gorgeous back-lit irises were in front of a window on the campus of Paul Smith’s College. I saw them several times as we hurried to the dining hall for meals or off to paint […]
Floating
On the boat tour of the Adirondack lakes, we floated by several small islands like this one. This painting was done in the studio with a two-step process. I painted the darks with black acrylic […]
A Day in June
“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether […]
Camp Limberlost
The lakes of the Adirondack Mountains are home to fabulous rustic compounds known as the “great camps”. On the last evening of the Publisher’s Invitational Paintout, we were invited to a party at Camp […]