An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

I am still working on the sketch challenge and will soon be headed toward the Blue Ridge Mountains of VA. Until then here is a fall paintin...

Now I am experimenting with taking a photo, downloading it to the iPad and attaching to a blog post. The numbers are not always consecutive ...

As our last two days at the summer cabin unfold...I find myself in the usual emotional sort of limbo. Anxious to get "home" to Fl...

I meant to put these in proper order from start to finish, but see that I reversed them. Sigh. One of those days. So you will need to go d...

One last little project for the studio before I pack up for Florida.... I am teaching a class in Florida on Oct 24 using masa paper and wate...

Sort of stuck inside for sketching now at least for a few days as temps in the north woods of WI drop down into the 20s at night. Snowflake...

Nothin' more fun that a group of artists out to lunch. Here we are at the Minocqua Brewery. Let to right: Leslie Johnson, Susan Lansdown...

I mentioned in one post how much fun it would be to trace a sketch and then add the color. I traced my PT cruiser onto 140 # rough watercol...

Wow...day 30. How did THAT happen? Turns out drawing takes practice! Blah. Here I thought there was a magic pill if I could just find it! ...

The 75 Day Sketching Club (Ginny, Joan, Leslie, and Susan) are having lunch on Wed. We are bringing our sketchbooks to share! I can hardly...

My new friend Susan Lansdown has taken the 75 day sketching challenge along with Leslie Johnson and some others. Susan and Leslie don't...

I noticed just as I finished this that I did not have the back wheel of the model train engine aligned with the other wheels. Blah. Well, ...

Don't you just love it when something fun just clicks. I got the neatest email this morning from someone I did not know. It had to do w...

I know, not many people can get a bear to hold still long enough to sketch him. This was a brown bear too...not a the black ones we see up ...

I know...it always seems nutso but I do my Christmas card every year around Labor Day weekend. And the printer says that I am not the onl...

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...