Category Archives: Gouache

Tiny Book is Finished!

And it is in the mail with time to spare. I really enjoyed this project and I hope the people who visit it in person at the Brooklyn Art Library will like it, too. Here is the cover and over the next few posts I’ll share the many spreads that it took to complete thisContinue reading “Tiny Book is Finished!”

Oyster Bay Bonanza

Here is the second sketch that I did yesterday in Oyster Bay. It’s a local hangout that was pretty busy. Today, we drove down to visit mom at her place. We took her out to breakfast, we hung out and we put her postcards in a photo album. My friend Amy made her cat cardsContinue reading “Oyster Bay Bonanza”

Kitty and The Scream

This kitty was completed with three colors, blue, red & yellow, and black and white. I chose “The Scream” because I thought it would be humorous using cats. The triad color idea was today’s prompt from Carla Sonheim’s 365 days of prompts and ideas. The idea was to use red, blue and yellow. “The Scream”Continue reading “Kitty and The Scream”

Sketches fron Alive on 25 #3

John and I don’t get to the Eastern part of Long Island too much, although I occasionally teach classes at the art school in Riverhead.  Riverhead is another town on Long Island that is doing that slow crawl of revival.  It’s a nice place to visit and sketch.  They do a street fair similar toContinue reading “Sketches fron Alive on 25 #3”

Today’s sketch

When I leave the studio to sketch or paint “in the wild,” I never know what adventures I will find, with whom I will have a conversation, what events I will stumble on, or what wildlife I will encounter. Today I left the studio to go to a neighboring village to sketch.  I found anContinue reading “Today’s sketch”

Sketches from the past few days

Here are a few days of sketches that I haven’t posted yet…. John and I went to the Hambletonian on Saturday at the Meadowlands.  I did a few sketches but I liked this one the best because it shows the old Meadowlands Grandstand.  Not sure why they had to build a new one but theContinue reading “Sketches from the past few days”