
Solidaga velutina



On a recent Draw with Me, we did a series of fast (1-2 min) small (business-card size) sketches. I did mine in watercolour; these were the three I liked best.






Kate offered a workshop called Celebrating Place with the Four S’s — Spaces, Senses, Scenes, Souvenirs. I couldn’t attend the class because I was offering my own workshop at the same time, but I used her handout as inspiration to create this spread.

Painting with found objects (in this case, sticks) is a great way to loosen up and achieve unexpected marks. And there’s something delightfully meta (no, not that Meta) about using a piece of a tree to paint a tree, with ink made from a tree.

A new-to-me parasitic plant, discovered at Sand Pond in the Sierra Nevada.