Morel House, Savannah, GA

Journal - Sketching in Savannah with my fellow evacuee, Gwen - The Morel House ...

Richmond HIlls, Georgia

Journal - Life is slowly getting back to normal after Hurricane Florence. There's still a lot of destruction, families displaced, homes still flooded ... Art often can help with relieving the stress and worries, and focus, for a while, on something more pleasant.

While evacuated, I spent some time with my daughter and her family, and then a few days in Savannah Georgia. There I met up with fellow evacuee and friend, Gwen. We spent a good part of one day sketching Savannah. On another day, my husband and I visited Richmond Hills - The Henry Ford Museum and JF Gregory Park for a 3 mile old rice canal walk. Here's the sketch from the day in Richmond Hills - some sketched on site, most afterwards. I may eventually add color to this page - but the sketching was a lot of fun and relieved a lot of anxiety.

We are home, safe, sound and doing well ... Grateful to have been spared the worst of Florence.

Golden Grapes

Golden Grapes -- already the grapes are ripening ..

Greenfield Park, Wilmington, NC

Journal - Cape Fear Sketchers - Enjoyed sketching at Greenfield Park today -- The sun was in and out all day - clouds made it comfortable sketching ...

Cleaning

Journal - What do you paint when you're stumped? Your day!

View from my Porch

Journal - Sketched today from the shade of my porch ...

Another Southport House

Journal - Another Southport House. After lunch my friend Gwen and I sat and sketched another house in Southport. We found some shade, but by the time we sketched the complex ins and outs of the front of the home, the temps had reached over 90 degrees and we were very hot. So, this was sketched on site, inked and painted at home.

Southport House

Journal - Sketching Southport houses ... Yesterday friends and I found a shady place to sit and practice sketching and painting some of the houses we admire in Southport. It was warm, but we found a quiet corner in the shade to set up and sketch early in the day. While the hour we chose kept us cool, there were shadows plaguing our subject ... and because returning to plein air is still challenging for me and my focus was on getting the 'lines' right, I didn't stop to think about changing the light or colors. I tried too hard to remain 'true' to the view before me. I also started with pencil and followed this with paint and, thus obscuring all those careful lines I drew. Definitely a learning curve ....

Railroad Museum, Wilmington, NC

Journal - Sketch from the Railroad Museum, Wilmington, NC. A bit of the engine from a rather poor vantage point -- but in the SHADE!! LOL And a quick sketch of some of the railroad hats (done only in pencil).

Revisting Italy

Journal - Fond Memories of my Italy travels ....

Marsh and Morning Glories

Journal - My second sketch yesterday from the Marsh Walk, Southport, NC. We found so many beautifully blooming morning glories on the way to the pavilion... so I tried to add some of these flowers (which were not in our sight) to the view we had of the marsh.

R. Dosher House Southport, NC

Today was a glorious day - low humidity, cooler temps, a soothing breeze.  My friend Gwen and I sat outside this historic house in Southport and did our best to try to capture its amazing charm.

Loggerhead

Journal - Loggerhead

Greenfield Park - Lin Frye

Journal - Greenfield Park, Wilmington, NC - Sat sketching the lake from the shaded pergola - even noticed the eyes of an alligator and lots of turtle heads in the water ....

Pink Grapes

Journal - preparing for my September class ...

Journal - Another Gnome

Last of my little gnomes ...

Dock at Riverwalk Park

Journal - Sketch of the Riverwalk Park Dock - painted at the Cape Fear Sketchers paint-out.

Fountain at Riverwalk Park

Journal - Sketched yesterday at Riverwalk Park, Belleville, NC with Cape Fear Sketchers

Journal - Brown Pelican

Journal - A brown pelican.

Journal Gnome Place Like Airline Gnome

Journal - Gnome Place Like Airlie Gnome - Putting Paint to Sketch. Sketched on location, painted later

Journal - More rain --- sigh --- more splash and splatter (literally and figuratively)

Journal  - More rain --- sigh --- more splash and splatter (literally and figuratively)

Keeping It Light on Yet Another Rainy Day

Journal - Another heavy-rain day, flooding in the area, thunder, lightning .... sigh .. Keeping it light despite the dark weather ... modified from a lesson by Andy Geeson

Splashing On a Rainy Day

Journal - We're starting yet another -- sigh -- week of rain --- ground is saturated and by now so are much of our spirits ... every once in a while, we'll get a few hours of patchy sun, but rain continues in this unseasonable weather pattern we're in. Feeling wet and soggy myself, I decided to just splash around in my paints - and leave some of the rain outdoors ...

SKETCHING AT THE RV PAVILION

Journal - A few friends joined me to sketch objects brought from home and some nature items. We sat at the RV Pavilion - had a lovely breeze from the fans and a great time ...

RAIN!!

Journal - Our scheduled Sketch trip to Wilmington was canceled today due to severe storms and flooded roads. So I staged my own sketching session as an "Ode" to the days and days of rain -- my boots and husband's large umbrella.

Marsh

Though I now live at the beach, my favorite place is on the 'backside' -- the gold and emerald Marsh ...

Purple Coneflower

Journal - Purple Coneflowers

Southport, NC Marina

Journal - Sketched this morning at the Southport Marina - beautiful breeze despite the high heat ..

Purple Splash and Splatter

Journal - Playing with splashing and splattering again ... from imagination ...

My Herbs

Journal - Sketching the herbs I have growing in my Southport home.

Orange-Flowered Splash and Splatter

Journal - Playing with paint - An Orange Flowered Splash and Splatter

Oak Island Lighthouse

Journal - I'm using the Cheap Joe's Kilamanjaro Black Travel Journal and really love the paper and it fits nicely in my smallish art bag -- it reminds me of Arches #140CP - but the watercolor journal has 25 pages and easily takes watercolor on both sides -- Love it for watercolor journaling!

A sketch of the Oak Island Lighthouse ... NC ...

Water Boarders

Journal - From a photo taken during our Marsh Walk - Water Boarders ...

Journal - More from our Marsh Walk

Waves

Journal - Living now so close to the beach, it seems painting waves is the least I can do .... lol

Marsh Walk

Journal - Sketched from the Marsh Walk, Southport NC

Daylily

Journal - A daylily from my neighbor's garden.

Journal - Blue Heron

Journal - Sketching subjects from our new home (photo reference from Val Web)....

Sunflowers

Journal - Visited the Shallotte NC Market last week and came home with the most amazing bunch of sunflowers -- Had to put paint to paper ....!

Oleander

Journal - Oleander. I spotted these flowers on a long, warm, breezed-filled walk in downtown Southport. I remembered them from my time in South Carolina ... but didn't really notice the many petals of this sweet flowering shrub until I painted them.

Dog Roses

Journal - Dog Roses

Loggerhead Turtle

Journal - Working on Loggerhead turtles.

Journal - my favorite page from Leslie Fehling's Workshop.

Journal - Summary of a weeklong workshop with Leslie Fehling

Journal - Something from Home

Finally moved and settled into our new home in Southport, N.C.  This is from a workshop with Leslie Fehling in a Stillman and Birn Beta Notebook.  The assignment was 'Something from home."

Azaleas

Journal - Azaleas all abloom in Southport, NC ...