Try using more text with your images in the sketchbook.
At least the date and location of sketch can be added.
Then try a sentence or two about your previous sketch.
Write about what you want to learn to draw better.
Make a list.

Three spaces left in my summer "Sketchbook in Italy" program.

Sketching trees and fields

Sketch the branches of the bare trees this month.
Only 5 spaces left in my 2012 Italy Sketchbook Workshop.
Please let me know if you are interested.

Sketching the New Year

Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year

I wish all of you good health and please continue to work in your sketchbook as part of your good health program in 2012.

Workshops in 2012

Planned workshops:
Feb 11 in Salem at "The Art Department" store (one day). http://artdepartmentsupply.com/
March 17 a "Drop in Studio" at the UO Duck shop (two hours). http://myduckstore.com/creativeduck/index.cfm
July 7 and 8th Sitka Center for Art and Technology on the Oregon Coast (two days). http://www.sitkacenter.org
September 2-16 "Sketchbooks in Italy" (14 days) (For more information contact me at ken@copicmarker.com)

Inside the churches of Umbria

This quick sketch on the left was made in the Church of San Francisco in the small hill town of Narni, Italy. The sketch on the right was made in the Duomo in Orvieto.

group photo 2010 LaRomita

We always have a wonderful time in Italy.

This group photo was taken in the courtyard at LaRomita, 2 hours north of Rome.
People were from Arizona, California, Texas, Chicago, Virginia, Oregon and Washington.

Room at La Romita, Italy

The walls are actually white, but as the setting sun shines into this bedroom at La Romita the color is a warm yellow.