Year of Beautiful Art with Sketchbook Skool: Look for my sketch of Penny the Dog!

I took the Colored Pencil: Sharpen Your Skills course. This sketch was done during Danny's Draw With Me (free) and used in the above video.

Wild Beauty - A Frosty Morn Brings Sugar Coated Wonders

November 3, 2019

Stonewalling...

A Picture Story. 

Derwent Watercolor Pencils in a Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples October is my favorite color...

The woods are golden this time of the year!

Watercolors in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal.

Whistle Blowers No. 1, 2, 3, 4, ..... Doodling with Danny Gregory #Drawwithme

Watching #Drawwithme Danny Gregory @ Sketchbook Skool while doodling some Whistle Blowers.

  

Experimenting with Derwent Inktense Pencils in Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

A few pages of just doodling Wacky Birds and Quirky Birds. 

Some birds from inspired by Pinterest and some by Tamara Laporte (She does the Quirky Birds).

My favorite flavor: October = Pat's Pumpkin Pie

A Freedom Pie: Gluten free, wheat free, dairy free, soy free, egg yolk free. Love this recipe! 

Delicious homemade pumpkin pie with a flaky crust.

#Inktober2019 Day 1.Ring

Dip pen and paint brush with Noodlers Bulletproof Black Ink in Canson XL Bristol Smooth 100lbs.

Bird Habitat Field Trips #HogIsland2019

"..the little things that run the world" EO Wilson

  

A walk-about at the Marple Maple Farm. Plantings encourage insects to feast and breed so bird parents have plenty to feed the young'uns. 

A stroll through the meadow by the Hog Island's boat dock with Steve Kress and fellow bird habitat workshop participants.

Derwent Watercolor Pencils in Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

An Extra Treat for TiTi Today!

Titi kept jumping up on the bed. Not her usual “let's see if I can sneak as softly as I can onto the foot of the bed and curl up next to someone's foot in the middle of the night” manner , but bouncing on my legs as hard as she could. After she was shooshed off numerous times, she boldly jumped up and sat right next to my head. Again, I put her off of the bed, and again and again she continued to jump up. This behavior was definitely not her pattern. “What is up with this cat?” I wondered now fully awake. And now that I was awake, I heard a faint beeping. On and off. Every minute or so. An alarm? Too faint for the smoke alarm which is a blaring noise. By now Tom is awake, too. We get up to check it out. On venturing into the basement after checking all of the rooms upstairs, I discovered the source of the mysterious sound that the cat was trying to alert me to. The smoke/CO2 alarm was quietly beeping and stating in a calm woman's voice that the battery was low. No crisis, but thankful to my cat who tried to wake me when was something was amiss! 

An extra treat for Titi today!

#HogIsland2019 Bird Habitats with Doug Tallamy

Arrival on a Sunday afternoon gives the camper time to reflect on the magical beauty of Audubon's Hog Island camp in Maine.

Colorful notes and illustrations on bird habitat lectures. 

NO INSECTS = NO BABY BIRDS!

Watercolor pencils in Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

Much knowledge and wisdom from Deb Perkins, Doug Tallamy, and Steve Kress.

Yay! Baby Bird food!

To attract birds - "feather the edges" in your ecotones! Trees to shrubs to plants to lawn instead of abrupt changes such as trees to lawn.

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils "I choose truth over facts...." (August 2019)

Inspired by a sculpture I saw this past weekend at the Mystic Art Festival. 

The truth of this image is definitely more compelling than any fact.

Dipping the tip of Derwent Watercolour Pencils into water and going directly to the page in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils "Dip the Tip" Watercolor Pencil Fun (August 2019)

More play with the "Dip the tip of the watercolor pencil into water and go directly onto the sketchbook page with it" method.

Lots of pigment and texture!

36 set of Derwent Watercolour Pencils and a Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils If I was in charge of naming seaweed...

I sketched in the sun, sand, and salty sea spray. Prismacolor Premier colored pencils and watercolor in Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

As I walked along the shoreline enjoying the feel of the waves, I discovered many different kinds of seaweed. I made mental notes of each kind along with a fun name to help me remember what it looked like. 

  

Back at the beach blanket, I sketched Tom as he went into the waves, and decorated the page with my algal findings.

Pink Pom-pom Seaweed, Sea Grass, and Sea Lettuce.

Lasagna Noodle Seaweed and Seaweed With-A-Stem-Attached-To-Some-Other-Seaweed.

Bubble-wrap Seaweed and Looks-Like-A-Feather Seaweed.

Nature Journaling outside of the box or in this case without a guide book. You don't always need a Latin binomial or even a botanical level drawing to enjoy recording nature.

#SBSColoredPencils #PlaysWithPencils Development piece of an interior view...

Waiting in the dentist's office for Tom. Practicing with colored pencils in my Jane Davenport Canvas Journal. My only view was of 2 chairs and a window with vertical blinds. Not one person in the room to sketch, so this is a development piece of an interior view also known as practicing sketching chairs .

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day 52 Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Day 52 of #The100DayProject. I searched the lower wet woods until I found "Jack". Considering the environment, I knew there just had to be some arum species about somewhere. 

With the Jack-in-the-Pulpit, size and environmental conditions determine the sex of the plant. This means the plant may be male this year but female next year. The larger plants are usually female.

Watercolors and Micron pen in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day 51 Wild Geraniums

Day 51 of #The100DayProject.  Pretty lavender Cranesbill (Geranium maculatum) flowers blooming along the lane. 

  

This wild geranium is a native in the Eastern US woodlands.

Watercolors and Micron pen in my Strathmore 500 Series Mixed Media Journal.

#PlaysWithPencils Space Rocks! Version 3 (tan background)

Derwent Metallic Pencils in a Strathmore Toned Tan Sketch Paper Journal.

When not tilted toward the light source, the page looks a little blah.

On these rocks I decided to do some mark making with my Lamy fountain pen.