Life's little mysteries...another video!

I have no idea why, but this little video was hiding, marked Private in my YouTube set...I appear to have dropped the ball somewhere. I originally made it for one of my Quick Sketching classes, but didn't get the link OUT there!  It was from March of 2013...I spaced...

Since I made it to be shared, here it is...test drive your tools so you know what they'll do and which one to grab to get the effect you want!

Take a chance on a free book!

NOTICE:  We have a winner--the drawing was June 15, and Mary O. Martin was the lucky recipient of the free book!  Congratulations, Mary, I hope you enjoy it.  (If you all are still interested, you can find it on my website, as noted below.)


After 17 years of great feedback and steady sales, Sketching and Drawing is going out of print--so I stocked up on author's copies for my website catalog!  Though it's not about journal-keeping per se, it covers a LOT of techniques...

So for a limited time, I'm offering a free copy, right here on the blog.  Just leave a comment right here and we'll add your name to the hat--shipping's free too, if you win.

**And by the way, if you have to sign in as anonymous, please give me your name or email address so I can contact you if you win!

A lot of the sketches are from my own journals, and we cover everything from supplies to easy drawing tricks to a variety of subjects...


We'll draw the winning name on Friday, June 15--and good luck!

And of course as always, I'm happy to autograph it however you wish.

(And if you don't win, there's a special price on these on my website.)

Keeping busy...

We got a big order for one of the little history books we publish, so J. spent the weekend binding books!  I had stuck the sitcker from our red bell pepper onto that page, so just played a little having the other colors harmonize!

Taking care of health concerns; J. had a couple of moles frozen off a few weeks ago, and has a couple of others to remove surgically.  This was the first one...and hooray, it was benign!

The doctor thought it was interesting that I sketch about everything...but he was a good sport about it, and let me stay in the room.  Good thing it was minor!