Recent content by Joan T

Jo, thanks. The snow may start slowly melting. The temperature has reached 35° today. Sorry you missed your art group on Zoom. Ned, I knew the little lighthouse would be iced in. So was a great deal of the parking lot. I was parked on ice and frozen snow to sketch it.

Ai, how lucky to find some fabric with elephants! It was your lucky day. This house in Bellport is usually hidden most of the year by the tall shrubs that are in front. I got a view between the branches yesterday. 11 - free space - watercolors A big part of the Great South Bay has been frozen...

Pine Cone, I was just curious if you sketched with that paper in or out of the sketchbook because I know sometimes it is impossible to get the paper to lay flat towards the middle. That doesn't in any way detract from the quality of your beautiful work. I know a lot of us keep our sketches in...

Ned, thanks. I've never cooked with a jalapeño pepper...just used them as models. lol I'm up really early this morning (5:30AM). I was too uncomfortable being in bed with all the extra heavy covers...besides I wanted to watch Lindsey Vonn compete this morning, but it didn't go well for her...

I did end up staying home all day and did a few things that needed to be done. The temperature now (7:36 PM) is 9° and with the wind chill feels like -12°. Tomorrow is expected to be cold again. I bought a jalapeño especially for this hunt. I put it together with a few other things that were...

Ai, what a fun collection of sketches from that cafe. I would be smiling the whole time I was sketching. The guy you sketched looks like he's watching a TV screen cause he's looking up. That doorway opens onto such a nice view. Ned, sketching does help to calm the mind. I really enjoy seeing...

Robin, I like your color swatches. I'm a lazy person and have never done swatches or really even a color wheel. Pine Cone, lovely sketch of the weathered, bending tree! Congratulations on your direct to ink sketch!!! Sometimes I find sketching in a small sketchbook harder than a larger one. You...

Ned, I'm glad you found some of my elephant sketches. Here is a link to another sketch I did when I went back the next week. The elephants were so impressive. Fletch, I can't believe this hunt is almost over already. Thanks for posting the new list. I'll have to go over and grab it. I didn't...

Ned, thanks for your comments. It is funny how a memory sticks with us for so long. Glad you were able to turn the memory of the word into something for the rest of us to enjoy. Have fun at the game. The elephants are now with you! I sketched them in NYC when the exhibit of the Great Elephant...

Ai, thanks! Robin, thanks for all your comments. Jo, thanks. Now that I have fruit I guess I'll have to eat some of it. lol Good sketch of Gene riding the stationary bike. I'll bet he misses riding his trike outside. Can he do that at all any more? Your landscape looks so familiar after so...

Robin, is that fabric/towel with a jalapeño design? Cool! Nice heavy-looking iron. Love the houseplant. Ned, the zopf looks delicious. You are obviously a good baker! The original sketch of the hand looks great. Hard to tell what the print will look like. It will be interesting to see. Have...

Ai, thanks for appreciating my snow sketches. Ned, Mr Nick seems to have a monopoly on barber shops in Sayville. I know he has at least 4 in that small area...and he advertises heavily outside each store. You can't miss his signs. lol Your bread sounds good. Too bad we can't taste it through...

Ned, so zopf is a kind of bread? I've never heard of it, but I've rarely met a kind of bread that I didn't like. lol Interesting process you went through to print the image of the bank. I like it at every stage...they are all so different. 2 - vehicle - watercolors 3 - doorway - watercolors...

Ai, thanks! I like the garden view. So nice to sketch while waiting. Ned, your zopf looks yummy. Now I'm confused...when I looked it up I thought zopf meant something light and airy like a Nerf ball or those foam bats. What's the real deal? lol

Ai, nice work on the iron...a device I very rarely use. Like the hand and Rubik's cube too. This was painted down by the bay in Blue Point. I was sitting in my mobile studio facing the snow piles by the parking spaces for trailers only. 1 - outdoors - watercolors & watercolor pencils I did go...