I try to make marks each day, in ink or watercolor or acrylic.
When something is interesting visually or grabs at my heart it often ends up in one of my sketchbooks, and now I share them on a blog.

Sometimes a place or event or cause strikes my fancy, and often I make a Folding Journal of the place or event. These are listed under handmade Folded Journals, below.

As I finish journals, I will list them under the section of the type of journal it is — Many are Hahnemuhle, but they may be other types and are also Nostalgie — more about sketching — or watercolor.

I sell originals, prints, and take commissions.
I have a separate page for Challenges!

HANDMADE FOLDED JOURNALS

These are all handmade journals
using watercolor paper.

2018 CENTRE FOR TRANSFORMATIVE WORK DESIGN COMPETITION

2015 RESTORE OREGON: ENDANGERED PLACES 2016

2015 RESTORE OREGON: CELEBRATION DINNER

2015 HOLIDAY MEMORIES AT HEARST CASTLE

This is a very small journal I did around Christmas when we delivered a project of conserving the Gothic Sofa for Hearst Castle in California. My actual job is as a partner in our firm which restores antiquities.
*gads look at my horrible printing… worked on THAT*

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Mug, also happy wioth this one!

SKETCHPACK PROJECT

The project began in 2011 to get folks to draw daily. The sketchpack is a small zigzag journal with two usable sides, allowing one to sketch on both sides of 15 ‘pages’ to complete the month of August. There was much enthusiasm and the project is now repeated yearly in August, with a Facebook page for us to share as we go along. (The page is closed for viewing but you can join to play along!) There is an Exhibition held in October at the Artsauce Studio in Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa of mostly local Sketchpacks!

SKETCHPACK PROJECT 2021 No ink, no pencil!

SKETCHPACK PROJECT 2020 Emotional Body

SKETCHPACK PROJECT 2018 Pen and Ink!

SKETCHPACK PROJECT 2016 My Practice

SKETCHPACK PROJECT 2015 Business Tools

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Below, several oddball little folded journals from 2014 which
I used as cards to cheer my Mom up when she was in the hospital.

Hahnemühle Post Cards!

Many of these were sent to my Mom when she was finally in a home. The effect they had was that the nurses came by to see the newest cards — which gave her more joy!

As I finish Art Journals I will list links those pages here!
This is not just a collection of watercolors, but a place where I am writing and making marks about our life. Some items are excluded, of course.

HAHNEMUHLE NOSTALGIE JOURNALS

Love this journal, not watercolor paper but can take a lot of water… I use it as a sketching journal, junk journal, idea journal, taking quick notes.

Nostalgie Journal 10/2017: This journal started in Diwali, and continued to just after the New Year.
I anticipated that it would be about light and ritual and women… There was instead a good deal of unanticipated loss. I withheld many pages from this public forum (though I have no problem with friends flipping through my journals)because I documented the struggle of personal losses and deaths. My antidote, however, is to paint cheerful things. That is the story my journal reveals. Colorful items, beloved memories — a visual gratitude defying the sadness and craziness of our country and the horror of the stories. If I didn’t practice gratitude I do not know how I’d make it.

Nostalgie 5/2017: Heavenly Journal