Calm Before the Storm

-Little treasures found on today's walk with Turbo. -Hand carved rubber stamps inspired by old seaweed pressings that I made today. This...

Kids Draw & Cook

My son Daniel's entry called "Five a Day for Better Health" for Nate Padavick's awesome new blog Kids Draw and Cook , a co...

Etsy Treasury!

Made my very first treasury at Etsy, you can check it out by clicking here . And this bird themed Treasury is my second! Playing "cura...

The Sketchbook Project: 2011

Last month my lovely reader Lisa from Australia sent me the link to this wonderful project thinking I might like to participate...and I di...

Drawing Lab Book Giveaway Winners

Carla was so impressed with the unbelievably great turnout that she offered to giveaway two more books ! So we have three winners today! Mr...

Painted Bird Tee

My lovely blog reader Ann from Russia sent this beautiful photo of the t-shirt she painted using my free bird embroidery design and white f...

Drawing Lab book giveaway

I'm featured in a really cool book written by Carla Sonheim . "Drawing Lab for Mixed Media Artists" Published by Quarry Books....

In Ma Bag

Bag: Original 1955 British Army First Aid bag from an Etsy shop called SevenBC . Contents: -Moo cards -Tiny note pad -Cardboard pen that I d...

Wall Color

After hours of friendly debate Manolo & I agreed on a beautiful steel blue for the exterior walls of the new house. It complements the ...

Birdie's Approval

Maren from Flying Fox Studio sent me this photo of Burgess, her pet bird, checking out my blog and I thought it was way too cute not to sha...

For Karyn

Well, I finally finished it! It took me longer than usual because the paper was really difficult to work with. It was too absorbent and it n...

Dogwood progress II

Just two more birdies to go...whew!

Bits of Flora

Little set of stamps I carved this morning. With the usual: Staedtler MasterCarve rubber stamp carving block , Speedball linoleum cutter an...

Dogwood progress

Tomorrow I'll tackle the stems and the birds...I'll show you when I'm finished.

Dogwood drawing

I finished it yesterday and I've been painting some blooms today. So far so good.

Dogwood

I'm working on a 16' x 24' watercolor on a sheet of beautiful handmade paper I fell in love with at the new art supply store in ...

Iron-On

When I bought the iron-on transfer paper to make the fabric bird banner I also bought a package of iron-on transfer paper for dark fabrics...

Print Update

@ my Etsy shop !

Dark & Lovely

Found these photos while rearranging some of the picture folders in my iMac. I took the second photo at the Butterfly Center of the Houston ...

Drawing with Daniel

More marker fun! The beautiful yellow billed kingfisher was made by my 12 yr.old son Daniel.

McDoodle

Something I doodled this morning with the new markers & white ink. A future quilt perhaps? That would be cool...although I broke my sewi...

Passiflora incarnata

Daniel & I recently bought ourselves a set of Chartpak Ad markers. The last time I used these was in college while studying graphic desi...

Happy 4th of July!

Image from The New York Public Library archives. This is what usually happens when I take a pen to the local diner and they take a little t...

Agapanthus pages

From my botanical journal. This time I reproduced my agapanthus pressed flowers as a faux sun print painted with white acrylic ink on a piec...

Knotless Netting

The first time I saw a stone covered in knotless netting was at Nancy Bauch's beautiful White Forest Pottery shop a cuple of years ago....

Botanical Observations

A new sketchbook/journal project I'm starting where I'll be drawing my pressed plant specimens. I bought the handmade recycled paper...