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.

Among my traditions in the sketchbook is sketching food, especially pastry, before eating. In Italy this summer I provided some pastry, but each person had to sketch before they ate.

As a demonstration I took a piece and sketched it with pencil, yellow brush pen, Sepia ink pen and purple marker. Limited tools are often useful in getting you to combine the colors in shadows on and off the subject. Treat pastry like a miniature landscape.

Note the top of the pastry looks whiter than the paper around it because of the contrast of the dark shadow.

This was the title page for my Sketchbook/Journal number 60. I started it in the Frankfurt, Germany airport on my way to teach in Italy. The 4th Edition of the Drawing book by Enstice and Peters features this page in their sketchbook section. It is color here and will be in black and white in the printed book. This has images from Rome, Siena, Frankfurt, and a pastry shop.

Sketching in Italy

Here is a photo taken by Roz Waugh in Stroncone, Italy last month. We have set our sketchbooks out after working in this hill town in Umbria. Barbara, Laurie, and Judi look on as I comment about one of the sketches.

Sketchbooks in Italy workshop just concluded and the afterglow of the people, the food, the places are still fresh in my memory. This sketch was done on the edge of the Northern wall of Assisi. We paused to take in the landscape before beginning our journey to the churches of St. Francis of Assisi.

I'm back from teaching Sketchbooks in Italy 2010. The title page for Sketchbook Number 71 was drawn in Venice, Italy.
I'll keep adding images from the current sketchbook each week on Saturdays. Italy was another wonderful experience.

I'm off to teach in Italy this August. My next scheduled Sketchbook workshop is in November in Portland, Oregon through the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. It is full and has a waiting list. Please add your name to the waiting list.

Start a new sketchbook and keep working in the old one.