

CA Sketchcation, Big Sur: "Fire to the Left, Hundred Foot Drop to the Right. What could go wron
Some of you might be aware that Big Sur is on fire right now, and has been for weeks. Luckily, Route 1 was only briefly closed and that...


CA Sketchcation, San Francisco: "The Beach Boys Songs are All Lies"
I should have listened to Mark Twain. "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." But when I looked at the weather...


CA Sketchcation: A Tale of Four Airports
I just returned yesterday from a ten day trip through California! A childhood friend was getting married in Santa Monica, and as I had...


Art as Gifts - Part 1
A perk of being an artist is being able to blatantly ignore my friends' wedding registries. Because really, who wants me to buy them...


A New Favorite Subject
I spent a couple of weeks working in Long Island City, basically in the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge. As a one-time resident of Long...


Dottie's
No trip to Pittsfield would be complete without a breakfast biscuit sandwich at Dottie's. I did this on lunch one day.


Another "Mystery" Photo
This one was a photo I had saved to my computer, and I loved the lighting and the colors and wanted to give it a shot. When I...


Pittsfield at Sunset
I did this one in fifteen minutes while waiting for a friend to go to dinner. It was a little chilly as the sun was setting so I was...


Working from Photos Stolen on the Internet
I think most of these were "borrowed" from friends' facebooks, saved on my computer for practice. While I was awayin MA I worked from...


Stony Creek
I escaped Pittsfield one weekend to visit friends in Connecticut's picturesque Thimble Islands. I went a couple weekends last summer, and...