Sketchwork: Plants and Flowers and Plants

The older I get the more fascinated I am with plants. Probably because of sketching.

Desk Things

Mostly coffee cups.

Sketchbook Pages with Cars on Them

Well that's a very passive title, as though these car-related sketches just ended up here on their own. But sometimes that's how it feels :)

Develop Your Artwork Class at Flicker Street Studio in March

The Develop Your Artwork Class is a new one for me, and I hope you'll consider joining me for it on Tuesday evenings starting March 15th. Over the four classes, I'll provide help with getting started on an artwork, or getting unstuck on something you've been working on. Bring in work in progress, work that is stuck, or a new idea that you are having trouble starting and work on it over the course of four weeks. I'm going to be your "Studio Personal Trainer," helping you move your work forward.

You'll need some of your own materials, depending on what you're working on, and I'll have some materials on hand. Click here to sign up! The deadline to sign up is this Friday, March 11!

Develop Your Artwork
Tuesday Evenings
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
March 15th - April 5th | 4 sessions
$150 | Plus $25 Materials Fee | Beginner and up

Flicker Street Studio
74 Flicker Street
Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 767-2999
flickerstreet@gmail.com

Not My Time for Writing

I keep feeling like I should be writing more for this blog, and that's what's been keeping me from posting. But obviously, it is not my time to write. So here are sketches of writing! A couple of book sketches I've done in the past couple of months.

Look out for more of these "collection" sketches, and less writing, over the next few weeks.

1/19/16
The Man Who Couldn't Stop by David Adam

12/26/15
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

Sketching in New Orleans

Memphis is an easy drive to New Orleans, so in the last few years I’ve been there several times. This was my second trip during Mardi Gras, and I tell you what – that is the time and place for sketching! There is so much activity – marching bands, floats, crazy hats, people dressed up as dolls – all with a backdrop of historic architecture and coastal trees.

Here’s how I spent the weekend:

Eating with my friends. Seven of us caravanned down there, stopping to eat along the way.

Waiting for parades. This was the first parade on Friday night, at Lee Circle right in front of our hotel.

Watching parades. As the night went on, my sketches made less and less sense.

Getting refueled. We had a bit of a slow start Saturday morning, but some coffee and a mimosa fixed us all up.

Waiting for parades. I woke up enough to sketch this while waiting for the parades on Saturday.

Waiting for parades in a different neighborhood. This was the Marigny neighborhood, where we waited for the Chewbacchus parade. Lots of costumes in the crowd! I was dressed as “cold lady with a sketchbook.”

Sketching Chewbacchus! These next two pages were so. much. fun. to sketch.

Click on the images to make them a little bigger so you can see the captions.

Pink Chewbacca was the ultimate sketch find!

Drinking. What? I know, right. On Sunday we brunched, I walked around a lot and watched more parades, so I didn’t get any sketching in until we were at a tiki bar after a nice big dinner at Arnaud’s. These drinks were too pretty not to sketch!

And appropriately, the documentation of the weekend ends with these drinks.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Work Is Your New Favorite

Today I worked on all four of my jobs. I worked at my job job, worked on Urban Sketchers stuff, worked on my workshop coming up at Flicker Street Studio, and made sketches for an upcoming commission! In honor of all that work work work work, here are some sketches of desks and stuff on my desks.