This illustration was completed for Colored Pencil II at the Denver Botanic Gardens. The final assignment was a composition of a single...

We are finally getting a real winter! One of my first painting subjects from the NYBG certificate program was the fruit of a Skunk...

Most of my drawings this month have been in my sketchbooks or on tracing paper waiting to be transferred. We are deep into mushroom...

A friend and fellow-mushroom hunter passed away last week. Liz B was one of the first people I met when I joined NJMA. I attended my...

Last week, I started a 24-leaf branch of an oak that looks like it could be a pure Quercus imbricaria. Q. imbricaria is a rare species...

My last Graphite Rendering class at NYBG went really well. I had collected a variety of specimens for this class and my Pen & Ink finals....

In the second week of Refined Graphite Rendering, we learned some methods of using graphite dust. Each class is 5 hours long, so we had...

I've been collecting specimens 1-2 times a week for my classes, so I ended up with more than what I needed for finals and classwork. I...

My Denver Botanic Garden class finished this week and I turned in my final project, a stippled leaf in perspective. Pen & Ink II will...

I redid my hatched assignment using a different stroke, ink, and paper. I'm much happier with the results. Sennelier ink is smooth and...

My instructors have very different styles, so Pen & Ink was interesting this week. One instructor prefers minimal line and stipple work,...

It's been fun being in two different Pen & Ink classes at once. Denver Botanic Garden's Pen & Ink is a two part class. Pen and Ink I,...

My final project for Colored Pencil class was a nasturtium. For prep work, I did a line drawing and started a graphite study to work out...

I recently started Pen & Ink Class at NYBG. I finished the assignments early, but I had some tiny mistakes. I used Sennelier Sepia ink,...

This week, I'll be starting Pen and Ink at NYBG. I was on the waitlist, so I signed up really late. Towards the end of the month, I am...

Last night was my last Colored Pencil Class. Our critique was a make-up day for any unfinished projects, along with our last assignment...

Last summer, I collected fungi every week to illustrate. August was the peak of the mushroom season and we had a record number of Boletes...

A few years ago, I started a Perpetual Journal for weekly botanical finds. I was using a 9" x 12" hardbound Canson sketchbook. The first...

My assignment this week was to illustrate a pepper and do some color mixing exercises. In class, we discussed mixing earth tones, grays,...

This past weekend, there was a mushroom foray at Stokes. The weather hasn't been great for mushrooms, so we didn't find much. My best...