Steps

Steps from the harbor up to Rockport Village. Today was my first day outside painting in a long time. I'll be out a lot this Summer so I need to get my groove on. A new restaurant - Salt Water Farm - is in the building at the top of these steps. I went up and got a ham sandwich and ice tea when I got hungry. At $11, I thought it was a bit pricey but it sure was tasty. Today was also Alex's first day of work at the Waterfront restaurant in Camden. By all reports, it was a good day for him.

Maho

Life drawing at Waterfall Arts this morning. Today's model was Maho. These are watercolor sketches in my 9x12 Strathmore mixed media visual journal. 

Graduation

Susan

Life drawing this morning at Waterfall Arts. Today we had a new model - Susan. Watercolor in my 9x12 mixed media Strathmore Journal.

Chess detail

A painting in progress...

Little Jenny

This is my sister. She's a rock star. No, really, she's a rock star. This is a painting of  Jen Foster, done by our mother when Jen was six or seven years old. She never finished it - the mouth was never painted in. She either gave up on it or put it aside thinking she would come back to it later. I don't know. I never asked her about it. I was thinking I would finish it for Jen and give it to her but I haven't been comfortable painting over my mom's work - sort of like walking on sacred ground. So I took a picture of the painting and worked on it digitally in Artrage. I just had to guess about what her mouth looked like as I don't have the photo my mom worked from. It was kind of fun collaborating with mom on this painting. I think she would like it.

Brooklyn

Josh Schurr covers Joni Mitchell songs like nobody else. I heard his original song, Brooklyn, on YouTube and was inspired to do some art. I was thinking of  the album art on the cover of the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young album, So Far, when I came up with the idea. Coincidentally or not, Joni Mitchell did the artwork on that album.

Sarah

I've been going to life drawing sessions twice a week this month. This is one of my favorites from the past month. It was the first drawing I did yesterday and, for a 1 hour drawing, I did well. 

"The water met its Master, and blushed"

Sketched from a portion of a mural on the ceiling of the Ayasofya Church in Turkey. 

Santiago

I walked across the street to Parque Forestal after checking out of our hotel to sketch our hotel before departing to Valparaiso but found the building next door to be far more interesting so I sketched that instead. This one is in my 8x12 Moleskine watercolor journal.