Tag: sketchbook
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Returning home, to birds and flowers. A sketchbook tribute to Hiroshige.
Thank you for reading another zen Monday.
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Eyes trained on a goal, the soft-stepped, striped neighbor.
Happy new year, friends and ink lovers! Looking up to those 2022 goals yet?
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The sound of low-rolling waves carrying the weight of a ruby red crown. Thank you for following another year of zen Mondays.
With today’s sketch I close the tour of Crete in the fall, and the 2021 series of zen Monday posts. This is a two-part sketch. From where I sketched the first part – the beach scene – there was a pomegranate tree a few meters behind me with some shiny, ripe fruits. I didn’t have…
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Wishing you a Merry Christmas!
Wishing you a merry Christmas with a few of my favorite things – birds, brushes and books! Finally completed a page for #seasonsketchers and went looking around for stuff to improvise this photo with. As the end of the last sketchbook of 2021 nears it is more difficult to hold the pages open on their…
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Creative process: the opening illustration for “The Tea House Diary”.
What started off as a festive celebration ended up being the creative process for a notebook’s opening illustration. A year ago today I was sitting at my desk having just finished the full text for “The Tea House Diary” edition. I was in a celebratory mood, upon successfully completing a project right before the holiday…
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Crossing paths with the sunflower bowing to autumn’s evening light.
Thank you for reading another zen Monday. Welcome to October. As of next Saturday my first entries to Awagami’s International Mini Print Exhibition will be on display in Tokushima, Japan. You can see images of the two prints here. I have another special project going on during inktober’s official month – a new black monochrome…