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The Looseness Carried Over
The messiness and creative energy held over when I was in the studio the next day, and did a fast sketch. Since then I am trying to at least sketch daily; some days it doesn’t happen, but often it does, … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #danielsmithwatercolors, #finishroom, #HahnemühleNostalgie, #MPFCfinishroom, #platinumcarbonink, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #Portlandoregon, #sennelierwatercolors, #twsbieco, #urbansketcher, #urbansketching, #waterproofinks
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VSW: Palms is Where I Wanna Be
On the last day of one of the worst years, 2024, I looked to a Virtual Sketchwalk palm-tree-and-beach image from Vietnam to lift my spirits, and said prayers, partly because I knew where our country was headed in 2025. I … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #beach, #danielsmithwatercolors, #deatramentisdocumentink, #HahnemühleNostalgie, #holbeinwatercolors, #lovethestub, #ocean, #palmtrees, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #sennelierwatercolors, #twsbieco, #twsbilove, #vietnam, #virtualsketching, #virtualsketchwalk
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VSW: Fremantle AU Boys School
From our Virtual Sketchwalk group on Facebook, Fremantle Austrailia; images offered were mostly by Debi Taylor. We do a different place each month! Info from Wikipedia: The Fremantle Boys’ School is a heritage building on the Register of National Estate … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #danielsmithprimatek, #danielsmithwatercolors, #fremantleau, #fremantleboysschool, #HahnemühleWatercolourBook, #historicbuildings, #holbeinwatercolors, #lovethestub, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #sennelierwatercolors, #twsbieco, #twsbilove, #virtualsketching, #virtualsketchwalk
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Laguna: Main Beach and the Sixties
Continuing my sketchbook on early memories of moving to Laguna Beach, California. My first summer living in Laguna, Main Beach, above, was one of my haunts, along with Sleepy Hollow and Woods Cove. This was when we lived on Cliff … Continue reading
Posted in art journal, journal, landscape, memory, painting, pen & ink, ritual, series, virtual sketching, watercolor, writing
Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #californianative, #danielsmithprimateks, #danielsmithwatercolors, #directwatercolor, #imabeachgirl, #lagunabeach, #lagunabeachcalifornia, #pacificnorthwestartist, #platinumcarbonink, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #robertosterink, #robertostersignatureink, #twsbieco, #virtualsketching, #waterproofinks, home
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ANTS GO MARCHING!
Pleeeze excuse the photographs… It is next to impossible for an amateur like me to get good images of largely white paper! So there is ghosting of shadow. Oh well! We have an ant invasion of EPIC proportions. Because of … Continue reading
Posted in animals, art, art journal, journal, memory, painting, pen & ink, watercolor, writing
Tagged #antinvasion, #antmarching, #ants, #artjournal, #artjournaling, #brownink, #danielsmithwatercolors, #HahnemühleNostalgie, #nwindustrialsanctuary, #nwportland, #pacificnorthwest, #Portlandoregon, #robertosterink, #robertostersignatureink, #twsbieco, #urbansketching, art, sketching
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Kill Winter with Orange
“KILL WINTER WITH ORANGE!” For those of you not involved in the fountain pen community, this is a rallying cry that begins in February, and many posts of orange pens are posted. I’ve been thinking about this concept in a … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #benupen, #danielsmithprimateks, #danielsmithwatercolors, #directwatercolor, #esterbrookpen, #flexnib, #fountainpenrevolution, #fprhimalaya, #HahnemühleNostalgie, #himalyapen, #holbeingouache, #holbeinwatercolors, #killwinterwithorange, #lamyalstar, #lamyjoy, #nwindustrialsanctuary, #nwportland, #orangepaint, #orangepens, #pacificnorthwest, #PilotMetropolitan, #robertosterink, #robertostersignatureink, #sailorfudepens, #sailorpens, #sennelierwatercolors, #sketchbookcotton, #twsbieco, #watercolourbookcotton, #waterproofinks
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TWSBI Eco Fountain Pen Review
I LOVE TWSBI Ecos. Well made, good price point, and they hold a lot of ink. They are my go-to sketching pens, and the only pens where I have all the variations inked up. (See bottom.) The when the two … Continue reading
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Tagged #newpenday, #NPD, #twsbieco, #twsbiecoreview, #twsbinewcolors, #TWSBIreview
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Laguna: Crystal Cove
When I was a kid, and then later when I was at college, I knew I was almost home when Crystal Cove came into view. Depending upon the season (yes, California has seasons but you have to be a Californian … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #brownink, #californianative, #danielsmithprimateks, #danielsmithwatercolors, #holbeinwatercolors, #imabeachgirl, #lagunabeach, #lagunabeachcalifornia, #pacificnorthwestartist, #platinumcarbonink, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #robertostersignatureink, #sennelierwatercolors, #twsbieco, #virtualsketching, #virtualsketchwalk, home
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Working Cats
Buzy Izzee cam in to inspect the furniture when it was delivered. She was just a kitten then, curiouser and curiouser! Fun to draw this from the image I took of her, shown bottom. I am not happy with the … Continue reading
Posted in animals, art journal, Cat, drawing, journal, memory, painting, pen & ink, process, sketchbook, virtual sketching, watercolor
Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #catantics, #danielsmithwatercolors, #greytabby, #greytabbycat, #greytabbykitten, #greywhitetabbycats, #HahnemühleWatercolourBook, #holbeingouache, #holbeinwatercolors, #lamyjoy, #platinumcarbonink, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #Portlandoregon, #robertosterink, #tabby, #tabbycat, #twsbieco, #virtualsketching, #waterproofinks, Hahnemühle Watercolour Book
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Crow in the Snow
We feed the birds on the loading dock deck (which we can look down on from our studio) and among the many birds who come to dine daily are the crows. They are the pigs of the bird world, but … Continue reading
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Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #crow, #crowsarepigs, #feedingthebirds, #Hahnemühle, #Lamy, #lovethestub, #middleofthenight, #nostalgiejournal, #PlatinumCarbonPen, #twsbieco, Daniel Smith watercolors, De Atramentis Document ink, Lamy Joy, Nostalgie Sketch Book Journal, Platinum Carbon pen, Primatek, TWSBI ECO 1.1stub, watercolor
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VSW: Sunflowers South of France
Direct watercolor. No lines, just wet paint. It is really so hard for me not to use lines! It isn’t that I don’t like my linework images — I do. But I also like what happens when I manage not … Continue reading
Posted in art journal, creativity, direct watercolor, flowers, journal, landscape, painting, sketchbook, virtual sketching, watercolor
Tagged #artjournal, #artjournaling, #directwatercolor, #fieldofsunflowers, #Hahnemühle, #HahnemühleWatercolourBook, #hahnemühlewatercolourbookcotton, #landscape, #middleofthenight, #sennelierwatercolors, #southoffrance, #sunflowers, #twsbieco, #twsbilove, #virtualsketch, #virtualsketchwalk, art journal, Daniel Smith watercolors, De Atramentis Document ink, Lamy Joy, Primatek, TWSBI ECO 1.1stub, watercolor
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D.Katie Powell Art 
2025 1 20 Rump
IMO the flag should be flown upside down and at half-mast for the next four years because we are in distress as a nation. I won’t be stopping these rants anytime soon and if I do, then you should all … Continue reading →