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  • Music Will Take You Away – Blockprint

    Music will take you away

    Linoleum Block Print
    Hand Printed on handmade paper

    Created in an improvised studio while visiting Mexico

  • Eat your veggies

    I’m trying to eat better, so including lots more vegetable to my diet than I usually do. Easy to do here in Mexico where everything is fresh!

    Linocut on handmade paper

  • Tea Time, Bee Time and Working on Something QUIll-ty

    Tea Time, Bee Time
    Working on something QUIll-ty

    more prints from the improvised travel studio in Mexico. Hand printed on handmade paper

  • Printmaking On The Go – Oaxaca, Mexico

    A big goal for my trip to Oaxaca is to learn to create outside my studio.

    Here’s my very lightweight essentials printmaking studio

    My first print – hand printed on handmade paper

    Second print

    I think i have the ‘hang’ of it…stay tuned for more block prints!

  • Dreams of Flight

    Dreams of flight

    I learn something new about colored pencil with each drawing. Today’s lesson involved layering colors.

    Polychromos by FaberCastell
    185 Naples Yellow
    168 Earth Green Yellowish
    156 Cobalt Green
    158 Deep Cobalt Green
    280 Burnt Umber
    172 Earth Green
    232 Cool Grey III

  • toot your own horn!

    Sometimes you have to toot your own horn!

    Colored Pencil drawing with
    Faber Castell Polychromos

    231 Cold Grey II
    185 Naples Yellow
    186 Terracotta
    130 Salmon
    133 Magenta
    145 Light Pthalo Blue
    246 Prussian Blue
    283 Burnt Sienna

  • we are starting a band

    we are starting a band!

    do you want to join?

    colored pencil drawing
    Faber castell polychromos

    colors listed below art

  • my music buddy

    The best part of making art is having a friend (like YOU) to share it with!

    Colored Pencil drawing
    Faber Castell Polychremos

    232 Cold Grey III
    130 Salmon
    186 Terracotta
    145 Light Phthalo Blue
    246 Prussian Blue
    283 Burnt Sienna

  • Hurry up and eat your Breakfast!

    Hurry and eat your breakfast! It’s a beautiful day out there, and we need to be a part of it!

    Halfway through I was afraid this drawing would fail, because I was trying something new with color and value. Glad i didn’t give up!

    Colored Pencil drawing
    Faber Castell Polychromos

    231 cold greyll
    154 Light Cobalt Turquoise
    183 Light Yellow Ochre
    186 Terracotta
    225 Dark Red
    283 Burnt Sienna
    157 Dark Indigo

  • the best way to start a day

    sometimes the best way to start a day is with a cup of tea and your imagination

    Colored pencils
    Faber Castell Polychromos

    185 Naples Yellow
    111 Cadmium Orange
    288 Burnt Sienna
    153 Cobalt Turquoise
    246 Prussian Blue
    133 Magenta
    129 Pink Madder Lake
    231 Cold Grey II