An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

I think you can sort of see that as I proceed through this exercise of sketching every day (and you can scroll back through a few of them ...

I've painted at the Thirsty Whale Restaurant before. But this time instead of acrylic I chose watercolor on hot press paper. (For when...

With quite a bit of company still at our cabin on the lake, all I have had time to keep up with IS the 75 day challenge. (Did a little ...

Greg has 3 tomato plants growing in pots down by the lakeshore where they get sun. He's so pleased they are ripening up this week. ...

These two sketches are by two friends who are joining me in the challenge. I apologize in the tiny one. Susan and I experimenting wi...

These sketches are about 5" x 5" and represent several different kinds of pens. Tombow water soluable pens allow for some water ...

This morning on our pier after the fog lifted I found the most beautiful jewelry in the world! Three of them actually...hung like ornaments ...

I had to laugh at this sketchbook cover. It looks like one of those funny "plan ahead" stickers! I thought it was kind of approp...

What a lovely morning! We got lucky (rain came in the afternoon!). It was a long drive. BUT thanks to Susan Lansdown our great driver, Jo...

En plein air this morning was beautiful...about 80 and sunny. According to the weather man...we are in for some rain and cooler temps this w...

Although I had 6 possible pieces to put in the show, I settled on these four. Top back: Arbor Vitae Lake, Top right: Discovery Center: Mani...

This is a painting I started awhile ago from a photo I took at the River Walk in San Antonio. It's a famous location for paintings...I...

Our little lake Tippecanoe in northern WI has a number of islands...one "set of islands" we dub Blueberry and "little" B...

When you have a ton of company...and it's 98 in the shade...sometimes en plein air painting just needs to be in your own back yard! Thi...

You will remember last month sometime I was working on some oak leave/acorn images for the Seno Woodland Center? Well, this month, my frien...

My friend, Lou, from Canada and I spend the winter in Florida exploring art. This year Lou was wondering if we could, among other things, d...

Here I am at the opening evening of the Manito Art League show (Wed July 13th). A lovely event with wonderful food, good music, and a crowd...

Today I helped to judge at the Arbor Vitae Arts and Crafts show. Very fun! Lots of nice art to see and enjoy with everything from fine art ...

I spent an hour or so touching up the en plein air sketch that I blocked in yesterday. We all got rained out about an hour or so after we s...

We got rained out at en plein air today...I had just enough time to take a photo and do a little blocking in. Now I will have to finish up ...