Always inspiring (humbling!) to look way, way back, as I work at my desk with a pen and microscope. From the late 1600’s: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/012345/full/news.2010.689/slideshow I wish I could see this collection in person! Martin Lister’s...
Garlic seed head watercolor and graphite Sometimes you just have to drop everything and draw. I let one garlic bulb bloom and was rewarded with a flowering spathe and then seeds (bulbils). This is a study for a rendering of the whole plant: bulb of garlic cloves with...
All I did this entire day was a sketch… the Gualala River, in Sonoma County, just inland from its mouth at the Pacific. I also I watched other people skip stones, and canoe, and kayak. -KA
Olive seashells, mixed media: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite Today I demonstrated my favorite mixed-media sketching technique for a group of visitors at my open studio (Art at the Source, Sebastopol, CA). Olive seashells, the perfect example of “the...
natural pigments on panel, 16″ x 36″ Kerala mural tradition of fresco secco Ushas, or Dawn, shoots sunbeams from her lotus bow. She rides in a chariot with the sun and a herald (blowing on a conch shell). I chose to show them all high up in the sky above...
