Make Some Waves

I love seascapes. I’m not great at painting them, and I’ve never really tried drawing crashing waves with graphite or…

Pen Control

Today’s pen-and-ink exercises are all about control — of which I have little! We’ve looked at contour lines, parallel lines,…

Children in pre-school or early elementary grades are apt to sing a clever little song these days, all about sitting…

Today’s ink exercises are all about parallel lines, which, according to artist and author Claudia Nice should be drawn as…

Yesterday I posted about lines — an essential element of art. When we’re drawing with ink, we use lines in…

Even as Inktober draws closer day by day, I’m still unsure about exactly what I’ll be doing. One thing, however,…

My approach to working and playing in my art studio seems a bit schizophrenic at times. I definitely want to…

“Gray skies… nothing but gray skies… “ This drawing marks a bit of a first for me. While I’ve painted…

I’m not quite sure what to call this alcohol ink piece. A drawing? A painting? A doodle? I suppose I…

“So long… I’ve been looking too hard, I’ve been waiting too longSometimes I don’t know what I will find, I…

I describe myself in many ways. I’m an artist, a musician, a writer. I’m a wife. I’m a mother, grand-mother,…

I love landscape painting in oil. I also love drawing. So, putting these two loves together, you might logically suppose…

I am loving my new alcohol inks, and most likely I’ll be buying more in the near future! The set…

I’ve written many times in this blog about Matt Fussell, the Virtual Instructor whose tutorials and classes helped me become…

With Inktober rapidly approaching, and with my Cheeky Monkey Mind begging to do something with alcohol inks, I figured it…

I love blogging. I don’t love the new WordPress “block editor”, but never mind that. I suppose, in time, I’ll…

As both an artist and a musician, it’s not surprising that music often comes to mind while I’m playing in…

Maybe you’ve seen that movie — Knives Out — with Jamie Lee Curtis. We saw it last fall and enjoyed…

My experience with mixed media in the past has been limited to line and wash applications, such as the Turkish…

We all know that perfection does not exist in art. It especially doesn’t exist anywhere in my art, to be sure.…