Plein Air Marigolds

Sat in front of some Marigolds in Dow Gardens with my Monday Plein Air class --  attached are the results. This is watercolor,  on a dull orange colored pastel paper, then on gray and then in my sketch book

I took the photo at an angle, the square is actually a square, honest!

The dappled sunshine we were sitting in ...
beautiful, but not the best lighting to paint!

Done in inktense watercolor pencils
plus brown calligraphy pen

Tomato Plants

I sketched my tomato plant while Mike was out biking ... and then received a phone photo from son Steve showing me his apartment sized vegetable garden in Boston. It had a prominent tomato plant. His is an Heirloom tomato, befitting its location next to an old redbrick building in Boston; mine is a hybrid determined to beat the odds of over and underwatering by an amateur gardener. We'll see who gets tomatoes first!

Watercolor Sketch Workshop

We drew with a stick.

I took a class at the 

Chippewa Nature Center 

and we started this 

watercolor sketchbook.

I enjoyed being in the company of artists and fancied myself one for the 3 hours. 

We let the dripping watercolor create a shape.

We blotted a leaf