I am not a nautical type. Though I grew up near Lake Huron, walking the boat docks of Grosse Pointe City Park in the muggy midwest summers, and even heading out on a sunfish now and then, that’s about extent of my marine experience. My limited boating expertise is with canoes and kayaks — feeling more kinship […]
Posts in category Watercolors
Quick studies
If you come to my studio open house in a couple of weeks, you will see a flock of these small postcard watercolors (available for purchase). They are pure pleasure to create: I sketch in pencil quickly from those darling little mushroom birds I have perched all over my studio. Then I use liquid frisket […]
Mushroom Birds
Obviously birds are hard, if not impossible, to sketch “on the fly”. My bird paintings as shown elsewhere on this site, are drawn from photos, mostly from used scientific and bird watching books I got at Powells. These small postcard paintings, however, were drawn from “real” fake birds…. ie the delicate birds (often with clips) […]