For Throwback Thursday, I found a journal entry dated July 3, 2015. I was experimenting with watercolours and coloured crayons and I even added collaged bits of tissue paper and some lettering. These days, I don’t often touch my watercolours … Read More
Documenting my Life One Sketch at a Time, introduces Birgit Schulze, a German sketchbook artist, to all my friends and followers. As with so many of my Facebook friends, Birgit and I met online when we both joined Jane Lafazio’s … Read More
She found an old-fashioned velvet flower in the attic… and put it in her hair. For Throwback Thursday, I am posting one of the first portraits I painted for Let’s Face It, an online portrait class with American artist, Kara … Read More
Glorious sunshine, glorious summer days! For Throwback Thursday, I am thinking that anything with sunshine will tell the story of the first days of July 2018. Canadians have one thing that unites them: the weather. We love to complain when … Read More
Originally published in June 2015, this post was one of my first as I started my new adventure blogging about my creative journey. For this TBT (Throwback Thursday) I added photos of favourite flowers that are still blooming as we … Read More
Graphite sketch results in intimate knowledge of facial features. Progress in my graphite portraits occurs slowly but I can see improvements with today’s sketch of a total stranger. One gains intimate knowledge of another person with this type of exercise. … Read More
For this ThrowBack Thursday (TBT), I am looking to my early days of blogging. I published this post in August 2015. These sketches were completed from free online tutorials before I began taking different online courses. While I still love … Read More
For National Hug Your Cat Day in the USA, I am publishing this portrait I painted last year. Now…go hug your favourite feline! Painting Miss Daisy “Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re … Read More
Slipping Through my Fingers… For Throwback Thursday, I am looking ahead to the month of June and two birthdays happening very soon in our family. In this post published in July 2016, I sketched my granddaughter Mya, (soon to … Read More
For Throwback Thursday, I have selected three of the first journal pages from June 2015. The first colourful journal page is good practice for later portraits. I was simply experimenting and having fun. I also sketched my dog and some … Read More
Orchids, why don’t you like me? was first posted in July 2015. After my recent visit to the Butterfly Park in Benalmádena, Spain, where I admired butterflies and all types of orchids, I remembered that I had once painted potted … Read More
Grasping a moment in time. My nonna had us in her grasp even when we were in plain sight. See how she is clawing at my brother’s shirt? There is no way we were going to get away from … Read More