July Selfie July 5 2017

july 4 selfie

July Selfie (July 3, 2017)

July Selfie (July 2, 2017)

Koh-i-Noor Rapido Sketch Pen in a Stillman & Birn Alpha.

I fell

San Diego Urban Sketchers Waterwise Botanicals Video

3:50 minute video of the San Diego Urban Sketchers at Waterwise Botanicals in Bonsall.

The artists, the sketches, and the nursery.

Waterwise Botanical Garden, Bonsall

 A nursery in San Diego was the location of the San Diego Urban Sketchers today. They had a lot of nice displays of the cactus and succulents. Luckily we had a break in the heat wave while we were there. This is my sketch done in my new Stillman & Birn Alpha Series.

Vendor in Watercolor

More watercolor practice. This is a vendor at the San Diego County Fair.

Vulture ACEOs in my Etsy Store

Vulture ACEO 

Art card with matching envelope.

Woodworker

Watercolor practice in my sketchbook.

This sketch was created from a photo I took at the San Diego County Fair in the Woodwork Exhibit Hall. 

Western Multiple Signature Book Arts

I have been working in my "textbook", Making Handmade Books by Alisa Golden for some time now. It is a great book that takes you from easy to more difficult structures with good diagrams and instructions. We also used it in a book arts class taught by Cindy Zimmerman, my most favorite class of all time. 

This little book is Western Multiple Signature with a Wrapped Hard Cover. I used lined pages ripped from an old journal for the inside pages and for the cover I used paste paper I made with a friend last year. 

The book is 4.25 x 3 inches.

Kate Sessions Park Watercolor Plein Air

Purchase on Etsy

Mixed Media Watercolor the Squeezer

New listing. Squeezer Stand at the San Diego County Fair.

Bid

Leo Carrillo Ranch, Carlsbad

This is my sketch done with the San Diego Urban Sketchers at Leo Carrillo Historical Park.
I used a Koh-i-nor sketch pen and watercolor. 

The other artists and their sketches can be seen on my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/OTJ39Dp0sfY

sketchbook page may 30 2017

Sketchbook page

Doodling instead of playing computer games.
Always practicing my painting.

New Listing: Laguna Beach Lifeguard Tower

Laguna Beach Lifeguard Tower

Original Watercolor

5 x 7 inches
Ebay Auction

Plein Air Convention and Expo PACE17 at Balboa Park, San Diego

A Lydeo of a few hundred artists painting at Balboa Park.

Liberty Station

 Still hyper from the Plein Air Convention and Expo (#PACE17) I did a sketch after entering some pieces in the San Diego Watercolor Society monthly show. The Walk for Mental Health was just wrapping up so I got to sketch. I practiced some of the many things I tried to remember from the convention.

LA TRAVIATA

Sketching at the opera last night during the dress rehearsal of LA TRAVIATA. What a great opportunity!