Sketch journal April 2023
We went to France in April 2023 to visit Sam’s daughter who was in pastry school there. Instead of taking my chunky book, I took some paper in a folder and some pens. I...
Category: Making
Sketch journal March 2023
I sketched a lot of rocks. There are a lot of rocks here, so a readily available subject. This drawing shows snow on the rocks – that black and white contrast that I really...
Sketch Journal February 2023
This drawing of my left hand may be my favorite in the whole sketchbook. Hands are notoriously hard to draw, but this really does look like a hand. It’s got a sketchy quality and...
Sketch journal January 2023
The first drawing came from copying something I liked – I can’t remember where I copied this from. I should have made a note on the page. I like the simple graphic nature of...
2023 sketch journal
I’m hesitant. But I want to. Look at the sketch journal, which turned out not to be a sketch journal, but lots of experiments in different media and approaches. It’s all over the place....
This morning
I woke up at dawn. I saw this gleam in the sky. When I put my glasses on, I could see it was a crescent moon, accompanied by a planet. Venus? The dawn was...
Generating joy
Every morning I write an aspiration for the day. Usually, I forget it almost immediately. Today I wrote “generate joy” – a phrase I read that stuck with me. I remembered it often during...