IF: Fuel

Haven't posted in a while but not due to lack of FUEL.
This semester I'm teaching 2 new classes and to reward myself I experimented with mixed media. This piece is collage, watercolor, gouache and colored pencil. I used gum arabic to glaze on watercolor - really makes the colors pop. The collage pieces are from a printout of my rose bear illustration. It was oddly therapeutic to chop up my own work!

IF:swell

It was the first day at his new school . The closer he came the more his anxiety level began to SWELL!

I hope my son will see the humor in this post as he gets ready for the intermediate school!

IF: Obsession

My fascination and attraction to crazy quilts is becoming an obsession! I can "blame" my Great, Great Grandmother Merritt  who created dazzling crazy quilts while she ran a boarding house in the Catskills.

IF: gesture

 The gesture and working out the silhouette...

The drawing....

The finish...

IF: Stay-cation

  Sometimes the best vacations are just 10 minutes away! 

In northwestern Connecticut we have  The White Memorial Conservation Center, 

4000 acres of woods, trails, ponds and fields. 

We enjoyed Father's Day there - in our canoe! 

(We're the 3 bears in the birch bark canoe.)