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Come join us in celebrating International Nature Journaling Week, June 1-7, hosted by the amazing Bethan Burton! I am honored to be contributing to the festivities with a LIVE workshop on Friday, June 2nd at 7 PM EST. Learn more www.naturejournalingweek.com
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Drawing Inspiration🎙️Ep100 is here, podcast fam! We’re diving into the history & celebrating with a $100 giveaway thanks to Etchr! 🎁 Tune in by June 5. Grateful for your audio tributes on the 4yr journey. Homework may feel familiar! Here’s to the next 100! 🥂🎊 drawinginspiration.fm/100
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A little sketch practice on my day off at a coffee shop in advance of a workshop I am doing next Friday about creating textures with pencils. Details to come. Subscribe to my newsletter to keep up to date.
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It’s World Turtle Day!
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I cut up a 4’ by 8’ 1/4” piece of hardboard into fourteen smaller pieces for drawing/watercolor boards. 24” by 32” (2), 16” by 24” (4), 12” by 16” (8)
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Our first clutch of mergnasers have emerged with a total of 19 ducklings. Two more clutches to come and one of them are wood ducks.
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A little graphite sketch in my Etchr A6 hot press sketchbook. I know some of you aren’t fans of bugs but I love their textures. This is a sisal agave snout weevil beetle. You’ll find it’s larvae in some bottles of tequila. Drawn with a Pentel Orenz .3mm 2B
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A fruit study. Ok, and a hissing cockroach :-) Spotted at the insect display at the Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Painted with a Pentel water brush and QoR watercolors. Etchr A6 sketchbook and an Art Toolkit palette.
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It’s coming up on episode 100 of the Drawing Inspiration podcast at the end of May. It’s been an incredible 4 years. Has the podcast impacted you? If so, go here and leave an audio message. I may use it on the show drawinginspiration.fm/contact/
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A baby sea turtle in watercolor inspired by the photography of Sketched with the a Sakura pen, painted with Pentel Canada water brushes and QoR and DS watercolors in my A6 hot press Etchr book. This was quite challenging trying to capture a sky which I don’t typically paint.
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Sketching to relax
Sometimes I sketch to finish and other times I sketch to meditate and explore. This was 45 mins of just slowly enjoying the paper, pencil and the sounds. I don’t do exercises. For me the exercise is just drawing. Today I needed more from this and so I took it slow and took it all in. I forget sometimes to do this for mediation because it buys me a few hours of joy I can lean on for the rest of the day. Yes, I’ll probably finish eventually…maybe. Enjoy the time and keep drawing.
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I sat outside this evening and a sketched this great blue heron with a ballpoint retractable pen using black, blue and red as well as green for the grass. Some white Gelly roll for feathers and highlights. Sketched on Strathmore toned tan paper.
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This male wood duck looks great and he knows it. Our pond friends are all coming back.
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Lunch sketch today was in a new style Moleskine sketchbook. Arlo the Havanese.
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Enjoying a cup of coffee this morning while boiling down my last batch of maple syrup. This system reduces 40 l down to maybe 1.5 l of syrup in 3.5 hours.
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I cleaned out and replaced the shavings in our duck houses a few days ago. Look who is checking it out this morning. It’s wonderful seeing these common hooded mergansers return. The water is frozen over this morning but should open this afternoon. Fish and tadpoles are active.
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An ink drawing then watercolor of The Writers’ Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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It’s that time of year again. Replacing the shavings in the 5 duck houses around our pond. This one was was occupied by some blackbirds last year. Wood ducks and mergansers are regular guests (30-45 ducklings per year)
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A little coffee shop piece today. Barn owl in watercolor in an Etchr A6 sketchbook. All my tools are packed nicely in my Peg and Awl Sendak Artist Roll.
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Lunch art from today. 45 mins to calm and clear the mind. 🎨 🐸
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Starting a new graphite piece. My largest in this medium. Love using my Pentel Graphgear .3 2B. Paper is hot press Bristol.
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Sketched this in a Starbucks while waiting for my daughter to write an exam this evening. Finding the time and the space to be creative.
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Launching my first drawing course
Excited to announce my first online course in collaboration with Etchr. You can check out the trailer here https://youtu.be/3HV_i5-_j8A and the course will be live 12 PM EDT March 18th via learn.etchrstudio.com/programs/… . Thank you all who have been part of my journey thus far.
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American Bullfrog
I love frogs and toads. Their textures are so fun and challenging to render. This male American bull frog is one of many that inhabit our pond. As tadpoles they take a few years to mature and are massive. Drawn with a Pentel Graphgear 1000 .3 mm and 2B lead in an Etchr A6 hot press sketchbook.
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I made good use of my lunch time today at work.
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