If happiness comes in small packages, it was urban sketching with the Louisville Art Association on August 14, all day, long hours of leisure, laughter, and creative talent being enjoyed together! We found this pickup truck right across the street from the Art Center and spent a couple of happy hours sketching there together. A […]

How can you find your heart and soul in sumi e brushwork? Register now for my upcoming Workshop on May 7, Tuesday, at 6:00 p.m. I hope that’s everyone of you! Brush. Ink. White paper. You think, “I wonder if…” This is your invitation to try your own hand at creating from the heart. Trust […]

A little sketching in the category of “so fun and easy, having wonderful time, wish you were here type…” and here are my happy group again. We had such a relaxing time, with old and new members, Frank, Kathy, Jason and daugher Helen plus Donna. You know we always try to hit up a pie […]

Sketching with heart and soul and friends. Or this could also be called “Won’t You Be My Sketching Friends?” I thought of the beautiful documentary movie on Mr. Rogers, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor , in connection with our sketching trips. The legacy of Fred Rogers deeply touched my heart in these troubled times of chaos and […]

There is an inner power which, when discovered within, frees one from reliance on force to exist in this world. I express this in my sumi-e artworks inspired by poetry or quotations from various sources. These works convey my own path to inner awakening to that power; I hope they may inspire you as you […]

Did I tell you why I’m enjoying the sumi e abstract paintings? There are many reasons. First of all, they are fun! I have always begun with a poem, a quote, a piece of music in my mind. I want to know this concept on a deeper level of consciousness than the intellect alone. I […]

Adding a few more abstract sumi-e paintings to my repertoire, “…this much I have learned— if not enough else— to live with my eyes open…” -Mary Oliver 187S How I believe these are viewer friendly… As I said in an earlier blog post, I have been surprised at how well people relate to these based […]

I want to share a few of the new sumi-e I am working on. For such simple pieces, it takes a surprising amount of time to prepare for presentation…

Five of us met at the Denver Botanic Gardens with the intention of sketching the Jungle Rooms. We all pretty much got hung up on the Orchids.

What better way to spend a Sunday morning than with my Denver Urban Sketching – Bardo Coffee House, a cozy, welcoming place to be.  Maybe one of the