My eye searches out color in mid-winter. I’m sending this mini-posting to all mid-winter people, especially those about to get another huge snow storm. The ground is white here in New Hampshire, but we have escaped blizzards, knock on wood.
A wonderful, sweet smelling, spring smelling, and extremely long lived bouquet of hyacinth blooms, bought in the grocery store, grown in greenhouses in Canada. Thank you, Canada. Again I draw my pitcher, with the hand painted scenes of Tallinn, Estonia.
An assortment of objects on the dining room/painting room table. These include the pitcher and a holiday card from my friend Mary Jo Tydlacka. The setting for her painting (simplified here) is of the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City, Maryland. (This is the ruins of a 19th century boarding school for girls. Real studies too, not just ‘finishing.’ I used to work here as a docent.) The play is Cyrano, performed by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
Today I found color in my art supplies. Koh-I-Noor Colored pencils and Pigma Micron pens from Japan. Included is the drawing just described above. Similar to a play within a play.
The view of our ridge from the living room. I tried to draw ‘alpenglow.’ This is when the setting sun in the west shines on a ridge in the east providing a kind of reflected sunset. This golden/pink/green effect only lasts a few minutes and was gone before I finished drawing. The red in the front is our sofa. Its color pleases me too. With a house with so many large windows, some furniture must back up against the glass.
DRAW-NH! My big New Hampshire project - Draw all 234 towns in the state.
I drew Town #234 on Saturday, November 17, 2012, at the Salmon Falls Mills in Rollinsford, completing the project within my self-assigned goal of two years. And now the book has been published!
Click the map to visit the project. From there you can go directly to an image of every New Hampshire town as it appears in the blog.
Or, by using the search box at the upper left of every page here on the blog, you can find all occurrences of a town’s name (or any other word you might be looking for) from throughout the entire blog.
Or you can buy my book, which contains the ‘official’ drawing of each town. Some people keep it in their car and check off the pages as they make their own colorful journey throughout the state.
My Summer 2015 project
Draw behind the scenes at the New London Barn Playhouse.
Click the picture to see all 45 sketches from my project of drawing behind the scenes at the New London Barn Playhouse during their summer 2015 season.
Recent publicity
Here are links to some recent commentary on my work:
All blog images are available for purchase as notecards and larger prints
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Introduction
I live in the woods near the small college town of New London (New Hampshire, USA) on the east coast of America. My husband assists me with technical aspects of the blog.
I was born, raised (well, until age 6 and summers) and educated in New Hampshire. I graduated from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, in Fine Arts and French. I have lived a few years outside of the United States…in England, France, and Germany. We as a family lived in Maryland from 1970 to 2008. We have been back living in New Hampshire for over seven years now. As well, we love to travel, and are often in western Canada, where our grandchildren live.
I plan to share drawings, paintings, and other art explorations here on my blog. And then add some commentary about the scene that inspired the work.
Here’s a great site called Urban Sketchers, which has links to people all around the world who love to draw on location. I am listed under the members section.
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I wrote a few lines on how I make my drawings, and what materials I use. Click here on ‘Try It’ to read in detail about my methods.
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A wonderful, sweet smelling, spring smelling, and extremely long lived bouquet of hyacinth blooms, bought in the grocery store, grown in greenhouses in Canada. Thank you, Canada. Again I draw my pitcher, with the hand painted scenes of Tallinn, Estonia.
An assortment of objects on the dining room/painting room table. These include the pitcher and a holiday card from my friend Mary Jo Tydlacka. The setting for her painting (simplified here) is of the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City, Maryland. (This is the ruins of a 19th century boarding school for girls. Real studies too, not just ‘finishing.’ I used to work here as a docent.) The play is Cyrano, performed by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.
Today I found color in my art supplies. Koh-I-Noor Colored pencils and Pigma Micron pens from Japan. Included is the drawing just described above. Similar to a play within a play.
The view of our ridge from the living room. I tried to draw ‘alpenglow.’ This is when the setting sun in the west shines on a ridge in the east providing a kind of reflected sunset. This golden/pink/green effect only lasts a few minutes and was gone before I finished drawing. The red in the front is our sofa. Its color pleases me too. With a house with so many large windows, some furniture must back up against the glass.
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