Cuban and its People

A young student displaying her hand-made flag in Las Terrazas, Cuba, January 26, 2017

Spruce Grouse in Manitoba

Spruce Grouse in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba
To see the story of this Spruce Grouse encounter visit:  Spruce Grouse in Riding Mountain 

Sketching at farm in E Tn

Sketch of "RibEye" with pen and watercolor wash.

3rd night anchored out...

Cat house for Nadine

Saw this cat house as we were traveling along the Tenn-Tom waterway.  The cats had a great view of the river!

Better late than never???

It was late in doing to begin with...then we ran into trouble connecting at night.  Excuses, excuses!  ;-)

Time to start sketching! Has been too long Wednesday Sketchers!

Sketch with ink and watercolor. Plein Air day with Tuesday Painters.

Plein Air day at park in Maryville Tn.

PleinAir outing to Harmony Family Center at Montvale

Sketched with pen and then watercolor of Twin House at old Camp a Montvale . The structure was the counsellors lodging...boys on one side..girls on the other.

Sketching with contour

Kay, your sketching from the Swenson workshop inspires me!!  After looking at your story page in sketch I did a sketch in the salon from objects in the room.  I tried to limit my time spent on each aspect, though I didn't use a timer.  I like the way it came out...but I'd like to have a better grasp of how to use the negative space around the subjects to connect the work.  This time I drew part of the netting we have holding fresh fruits and veggies...but I ended up covering more of the page than I like.  I'd like to transition from one piece to another without being so obvious.  

So...the next day we were traveling up the St. Mary's River from De Tour, MI, to Sault Ste. Marie, MI.  What a perfect time to do some sketching on the move.  What with our going only 7.5 mph anyway...and add to that the current from the river pushing on our bow...I had just enough time to sketch in a few objects.  I still would like there to be more space around the subjects.  Will work on that.  All in all, I like the sketch above better.  I was more faithful in it, I think, doing the contour drawing.  It gives a flow to the piece that plain ole drawing doesn't have.  And...maybe it's that line transition in the first piece that makes me feel it is a unified piece...a composition.

Tuesday Painters

Tuesday Painters went to a beautiful farm . I chose this old barn and first sketched using black pen and used contour line drawing.  Then of course hasd to add watercolor!...great morning in a peaceful setting.

Brussels

New entry to travel journal

Leaning a little!

Kay

Lake Erie rocks

Way behind on posting...This was fun to do...and I tried to do some shading in an "artistic way."  ;-)

I received flowers for our 4th of July Get-together. Sketched with penand then watercolor

Get Well Card

My friends Mother fell and is in the hospital.  I sat down like I used to and painted a little card to take with me when I went to visit. I think it brightened her day a little:)

"Waiting"

An Amish couple were fishing at the wall on which we were tied.  She was sitting on a concrete post...waiting.

House on Esopus Creek, Saugerties, NY

Tried painting large areas before drawing.  Kinda like it.  Cutest house!!

Castle by the sea

Tiny (2x3) painting.  Started out just playing with watercolor.  Dabbed off the moon with a wine cork covered in tissue.  Then today I worked on it a little trying to make a scene.  I think I still need to scratch out some really light parts on the castle...and maybe on the moon.

Morning Coffee

Pen and ink sketch

While enjoying morning coffee

Kay

Collage for Porch