What's Bugging You?

Recently a friend of ours, Cynthia Brady Speece, took some close-up pictures of some cool looking grasshoppers that just had to be sketched! I usually don't like bugs much, but when you look closely, they are pretty amazing! 

Revisiting Italy

I went back to revisit and finish filling my Italy travel journal of our trip to Tuscany in 2017 yesterday.  I did it as part of our Urban Sketchers virtual get-together. Since we still can't gather together because of Covid, we were to choose a photo of a favorite past vacation, or a place we would love to visit. Italy was both for me.
It was fun, going through my pictures to choose a reference photo while listening to Andrea Bocelli and eating linguine and pesto imported from Italy!  We would love to return to Italy again.  It was an amazing place and so beautiful! This sketch is from a photo of the countryside from our bus window. 

New Sketchbooks!

I recently bought two beautiful hides to make new journals.

They are filled with 140lb Fabriano
 Cold Pressed Watercolor paper.

The bottom two books have 64 pages.  

The top one has 96 pages.

I tried a new (old) latch on the top book that I bought in a

building salvage store in Fort Worth.  It works well!

The end papers are imported handmade papers.

Christmas Shoes

          Wayne bought me the cutest shoes for Christmas and they just begged to be sketched!

San Antonio

Last year we spent a few days in San Antonio, TX.  Our hotel was right on the River Walk and it was beautiful!   I had drawn this in ink and just got around to adding color to it. 

 

Sketching Over Lunch

I met two friends at El Arroyo's restaurant last Thursday in Arlington. The weather was perfect!  The sky was clear, it was about 73°, with a very light wind.  We were able to sit on the patio and sketch the unusual architecture of the shopping center across the street. I chose to zero in on the roof line.

Grapevine Sketch Crawl

My finished drawing from the Grapevine gathering of DFW Urban Sketchers....

Sketch With Me

I joined a Virtual Sketch Walk group on Facebook called "Sketch With Me".  There are members from all over the world.  Each month, on an appointed day, we are all given a theme to sketch.  Then our sketches are posted online for everyone to see.  Cathy Johnson put the group together. This was my first month to join in and the theme was Gratitude.

I made a simple accordion folded sketchbook for this group.  I will show it in my next post.