lilly plant at crave coffee

glass bottle

watercolor and ink, 2" x 1.5"

Hi, there!

I pulled out my watercolors recently

and have started playing with paint again.

It feels really good.

So I guess we'll get some sketches going 

on this sketchblog! Here's a glass lemonade

bottle from Sunflower Market that we've been

using to keep chilled water on hand.

... and i think that'll do it.

When we got to Sedona with our camera bag in hand, we quickly discovered

that we had left the battery charger behind. So these sketches are all

the visual evidence we have of our trip! Anyway, that about wraps it up.

I hope you have enjoyed this slide show of our family vacation (yawn).

Family Vaycay

So we just came back from a little family vacation to Sedona, AZ.
That's about a four (or with kids, six) hour's drive from Tucson,
and while only slightly cooler, it was very beautiful.
The city is surrounded by gorgeous rock formations and red rock.
On the two afternoons we were there, clouds built up across the
sky to cool things off and give a bit of a lightning show.
This watercolor sketch is from a hike we took -- I was aiming to
capture some of the rock outcroppings, but we wound up in a dry
riverbed where the clouds were the main view, so here they are.

aloe vera

The desert is in bloom!

nursery

little lime

jogging stroller

My mother-in-law loaned me her jogging stroller recently,

and it's super nifty! Hard to steer, but so much easier

to run with than a traditional stroller. I'm determined to get as much

use out of it as I can before it turns 100 degrees out,

which (who knows?) might be next week!

variations on backpack #2

thrift store coffee cup

Watercolor, 2004.

two versions of the same image

Watercolor, 2004.

and yet another

Watercolor, February 2004.

Downtown Hotel

Craycroft

Toy Farm

Gift

Living Room Corner

Office Building

Dress Dummy

Wilmot Library