Sunday Sketchbook: Memory

We're taking our son Colin to his first year at college tomorrow, and that got me looking though old sketchbooks, thinking about all the hours and days we've spent together and all I've learned, watching as he pursued his passions.

Plums and Geranium

I've been focussed on landscape for the last two weeks, so here's a summer still life, a print of a watercolor painted when the geraniums were in bloom on my front steps, and the black-eyed susans had taken over my door-yard garden, like now. (Click here to see all of my still life prints.)

Riverbend Store, Early Evening

There's a feeling I get every time I drive towards this corner at dusk, and that's why we have paintings and poems and music, for feelings like that.

Hill Barn, Late Shadows

On the way up Hollister Hill, past the Light's barn and towards home.

Painting Class

After sending out my workshop newsletter yesterday, I thought about this painting I did last year of students in one of my classes. (Click here for information on my upcoming workshops.)

Sunday Sketchbook: Maine

Last year at about this time I taught a workshop on Mt. Desert, and here's what I drew from a table at the ice cream stand on my way off the island--I remember thinking about how anywhere you look, shapes and lines lock together into a composition.