For those of you who are regular readers, you may have followed along with this year s #30x30Direct Watercolor. [ Our annual event where we do thirty watercolors in thirty days each June ] If you re a subscriber, you ve been seeing my posts go by, and some of you might have noticed I was off my [ ]
I like to give people a heads up every year, even though it s still a month away. Once again, the entire month of June is #30 30 Direct Watercolor our thirty-day painting marathon! Check this link for general info and images from all my previous years ] This is going to be the ninth [ ]
Here s a bit of fun we ve been noticed somehow (let me know if you know how!) and Ima Caldwell has done a great little article about #OneWeek100People in The Guardian. Here s a little snip! Click through and read about our inspirations, and decades long sketching friendship :)
So there it is, the tenth year of the Marathon! The final day was a bit of a grind here s the last 25 sketches. I had more than a few failures on my last day! Definitely getting tired from being on my feet all day, up late and out early. I m getting older [ ]
One of my late-night sketching opportunities was a public performance at Tension Montreal. (They re kind of a community center for the sex-positive alternative lifestyle crowd in town.) Montreal has always had a strong Japanophile slant ( omg that s bad, no pun intended). We have what seems to be more than our fair share of anime [ ]
Here s a few of my favorites from day two s Morning Metro Sketching. These puffy down-filled jackets are all the rage this year. I had to laugh at the look of the hugely inflated jacket contrasted with her skinny legs in tights. Très Chic! It s fun learning to shape masses with color. I can honestly say [ ]
So I did this year s marathon in three days. My natural clock is to get up late say 11? So I can be in the metro by 1pm, wander about like an itinerant sketching-hobo all afternoon, giving me plenty of chances for lunch, snacks, and boba tea then attending a drawing event at [ ]
So it begins! The tenth consecutive year of our sketching-marathon! [ As always, check out the previous years HERE ] It s hard to believe I ve done *anything* for ten years. I ve always felt that I m a person who doesn t stick with things for long. But as I look back at the years (and that s half [ ]
Just a reminder next week is #OneWeek100People! For various reasons, this year the official dates for 2026 are Monday March 9th to Friday March 13th. My co-founder Liz Steel and I always choose to do it in five working days, so that we have our weekends free. As always, you guys can take a [ ]
I’m somewhat amazed to be saying this year marks the tenth year of #OneWeek100People! For various reasons, this year my co-founder Liz Steel and I have set the official dates as: Monday March 9th to Friday March 13th. [ Note for new visitors: #OneWeek100People is our annual free drawing event, where we sketch 100 people [ ]