Don't bother me...I'm studying mushrooms.

In Molly's autumn sketchbook class, we are experimenting with lots of different tools and techniques to use with or without watercolor. Already posted some pencil sketches and some I did with walnut ink, a process I really enjoyed. Lately we've brought out the pastels, colored inks, pencils, and white gouache with studies of leaves and mushrooms, and learned how to tint our paper.

30 Days of Drawing: Day 23

In Molly's watercolor class today, we sketched nuts, seeds, pinecones and other autumnal things with walnut ink. Great fun. I enjoy the looseness of this kind of drawing. 

 The top two were done on Bristol drawing paper, the bottom on Arches cold press. 

30 Days of Drawing, Day 16: Fall flowers

Today in Molly's class we sketched fall flowers, using broad strokes in watercolor and pen and ink. I painted a dahlia and a gorgeous blue/green/purple (pink, red, gold) hydrangea.  Ooo, I love hydrangeas in all their flavors.