Fueled by Clouds & Coffee

  3/5/24 Maple Leaf from our upstairs bedroom window Fog is a common winter occurrence. Until it appeared earlier this week, I hadn’t real...

  Derwent Tinted Charcoal Paint Pan set In my “messing around” series, I use a product new to me that I know little about and then show the ...

  10/22/21 This sketch made through a rain-spattered window was motivated by wanting to use two pencils I hadn't used in a long time tha...

I’ve had to go through physical therapy a few times in my life. If I did my exercises regularly and correctly, I was usually rewarded...

Here’s the change I hinted at when I finished my black sketchbook : Red is the new black. This notebook was given to me by a friend who ...

Still life and lighting carefully arranged by instructor Terry Furchgott During the 25 weeks that I studied colored pencil and graphi...

Gary Faigin giving one of many demos. “If you want to learn to draw portraits, the worst thing you can do is to practice by drawing f...

8/28/18 Topiary at Woodland Park Rose Garden You’ve heard me say this before: I detest charcoal. If I’m in a studio where I can wash u...

12/12/16 Mars Lumograph 8B, Tombow Mono 5B, Baron Fig Confidant Nearly two years ago, I blogged about the Baron Fig Confidant notebook...