Happy Fall!

watercolour study... (not exactly true colours bc taken from a camera phone)

Backyard sketch

Playing around with watercolour sketches...(15 - 20 min. sketch)

Sketch dump...

a few sketches...(top 2 from Arizona)

Sono italiano

Most of you know about my Italian heritage. It felt good to get back to my roots last summer. I met many relatives I had never met before. This quick watercolour sketch was actually my grandfather's home a long time ago. It is now a stucco home, but with the help of my relatives, they described to me how it should look and I sketched it and painted it the way they told me to. I was told it turned out really close to the way it actually looked. I brought it back home as a gift for my dad, since that was the first home he lived in. I had a problem scanning it in properly, but you get the idea...

Watercolour Sketch

This was done in 2005 when I went camping. After coming across sketches like this, and being inspired by other artists, I really want to sit and paint from life again. At the time, I only had about 20 minutes to set up and paint this and then head back to the campsite. It was a fun quick sketch. I can't wait to camping again this summer!