The sketchbook exhibit at the DIVA in Eugene continues through April 29, 2011.

April 9th, Saturday from 2-4pm I'll do a demo of the Copic Air Brush System (ABS) at the Duck Store by UO campus. This system uses the Copic markers as the ink or dye and can provide a number of effects when developing your images in or out of the sketchbook.

If the Sitka workshop fills and you want to hear about other workshops, please write me via email and ask to be on my personal mailing list.

Erik Johnson, a friend and artist, has just published a series of small works called WINTER DRAWINGS. Look at this site to preview the whole book. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2031109

Exhibit continues

Join us from 5:30 and 8:30PM on March 4th (First Friday Art Walk) for the opening of a new exhibit at DIVA's "Outpost Gallery" 280 W. Broadway. DIVA will continue the show of Italian Landscapes: Sketchbook Drawings by Kenneth O'Connell and Pen and Marker Drawings by Marianne Walker. The show will go through April. The books "The Spirit of the Rough Sketch" and "Sketching With Copic" will be available for purchase at the gallery. Both publications include many of his sketchbook images. "Sketching With Copic" also includes the artwork of 10 other artists using Copic markers and pens. Marianne Walker has her latest book, "Shadows and Shading - a guide to working with the effects of lighting and shading in artwork" also on sale.

This was done with Copic Sketch markers and black Multiliner pen at Depot Bay on the Central Oregon Coast. Speaking of the Oregon Coast I'll teach a two day workshop on "Spirit of the Rough Sketch" June 27, 28, 2011 at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology near Lincoln City, Oregon. http://www.sitkacenter.org

Draw with Sepia ink for a change. This was drawn with the Copic Mutiliner Sepia ink pen in Venice, Italy.

I'll teach Sketchbooks in Italy Sept. 2-16, 2012.

I like the warm quality of this line for sketching.

This is the cover for the book Sketching With Copic® available through Blurb.com at

http://www.blurb.com/books/1931123

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, on the Oregon Coast, offers my Spirit of the Rough Sketch workshop June 27, 28, 2011.

Check out sitkacenter.org

If you want to be on my workshop mailing list, please email me at oconnell@uoregon.edu

Cobalt blue in the sketchbook

Sketching from the amazing display of Chinese ceramics in the San Francisco airport. Cobalt blue glaze brush work was very popular in the Ming period.

2011 Sketchbook Workshops in the near future.

A new book with sketches by O'Connell and 10 artists, Sketching With Copic®, on blurb.com click on "bookstore."

Travel Sketchbooks

Oasis for seniors (50 years and better) at Macy's in Eugene (second floor, beyond women's underwear).

$40.00 for 4 sessions of 2 hours each. Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 2011.

Sketchbooks and Food

Drop in Studio at UO Duck Shop in Eugene.

March 5, 2011 2-4 pm., free.