Journal - Sweet Potato Fries

Journal - Lunch - On the last sketch meet up of the Cape Fear Sketchers, Maria challenged us to paint our lunches ...so we all took photos and went home to paint.

I had a salad and sweet potato fries -- here are my fries ...

Journal Still Life - Floral

Journal - #Urbansketcherscapefear sketchers. Today's work at our paint-out at the New Hanover Library...

Journal - Mailbox and Doll

Journal - #Urbansketcherscapefear sketchers. Today's work at our paint-out at the New Hanover Library...

Journal - Grateful - Time with My Children and Nature

Journal - Gratitude - Time with my children and nature - This is from a bouquet on my dear daughter's table ... I'm so grateful too for nature - flowers, trees, butterflies, sunshine, and the joy and peace nature brings ....

Grateful - Coffee

Journal - Deeply grateful for the BIG things - family, friends, home, five senses, love, freedom; and too, for the LITTLE things that make life so sweet -- Like a timer on my coffee maker and that first cup of coffee in the quiet breaking of the dawn.

Journal - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

A Walk in the Snow

Journal -- It's overcast and rainy today .. When the days get so dreary, despite how warm it may be, my imagination turns to snow ... I sketched this from my imagination (no snow in the near future here at the coast ... LOL)

Hay Bales

Journal - Hay bales -- I recently took a trip back to Oxford - got to see some colored leaves, my beloved barns -- but the hay bales were all out of the fields. I miss them -- so found a photo I took long ago and painted what I couldn't find while back to my old hometown ...

Journal - Urban Sketchers - Cape Fear Sketchers - New Hanover Arboretum

Journal - Sketching with the Urban Sketchers - Cape Fear Sketchers - in cool weather and overcast (sometimes sunny) skies at New Hanover Arboretum ... I sat outside the Children's Garden and loved their cheerful displays ...

Journal - Urban Sketchers - Cape Fear Sketchers - New Hanover Arboretum

Journal - Sketching with the Urban Sketchers - Cape Fear Sketchers - in cool weather and overcast (sometimes sunny) skies at New Hanover Arboretum ... I sat outside the Children's Garden and loved their cheerful displays ...

Oak Island - Fruit

Journal - Another damp, gloomy day on the beach -- so several of us painted a still life of our fruit ...

Dreary Day - Oak Island, NC

Journal - One of the days on the beach was particularly dreary - we still took a walk, collected seashells, and worked on puzzles ---

Sunrise - Oak Island, NC

Journal - Spend a fabulous week with my friends from Raleigh at a beach front house on Oak Island. We painted, walked, ate, did puzzles, and simply enjoyed our time together. Here is one of the sunrises we witnessed ...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Journal - Sketched at my daughter's table.

Fall Harvest

Bethel Baptist Church

Journal - An overcast day filled with chores - I've wanted to sketch this church since I ride my bike in their parking lot, but when the sun shines, there is no shade to sit beneath. But yesterday, with the sun hidden, I was finally able to get in a sketch..

The Shed

Journal - Sketching my neighbors shed and plants from my window...

Hospice Gardens Waterfalls

Painted with the Cape Fear Sketchers.  Hospice Gardens were absolutely beautiful - so serene, quiet, peaceful.  Added to that, a great group to sketch with and a fabulous fall day.

Hospice Gardens Bridge - Wilmington, NC

Sketched with the Cape Fear Sketchers.  A glorious day and wonderful group to sketch with.  Gardens so serene and peaceful.

Another Southport House

Sketching this house from the parking lot across the street.