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Winter/Spring 2019 Classes

12/31/2018

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I'm teaching two classes at Flicker Street Studio in winter/spring and I hope you'll join us! Visit the Flicker Street Studio site to sign up.

Mixed Water Media and Composition
January 17, 24, 31, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
This class is good for beginners and for those with experience who want a new challenge. We'll explore a variety of mixed water media and techniques to learn about composition and create a finished painting over three weeks.

Getting Comfortable with Your Sketchbook
March 21, 28, April 4, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm 
All levels are welcome to learn to make a practice of using your sketchbook to tell the story of your everyday life. We'll explore materials and sketching techniques to help you get to know your sketchbook better.

I also added a new page on this site, Upcoming, to let you know about classes and shows.
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A Little More Looking Back - Porto 2018

12/30/2018

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I will spare you all of the "omg I can't believe I finally did this" and just present to you my sketches from Porto, Portugal. This is the trip that Toby and I took in July of 2018 so that I could attend the Urban Sketchers Symposium. This was the seventh USk Symposium I've attended and the first time we went to Portugal! 
We had a fabulous time. I learned so much at the Symposium, and I also learned how much I love to eat fish! The Portuguese diet was my friend.
These are not all of my sketches, just a selection of my favorites. 
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Looking Forward, Looking Back

12/30/2018

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What's new for 2019
Are you excited about 2019? I am excited for the new year more than I usually am because I already have so much art stuff lined up! Two shows, at least two talks, lots of teaching, some professional development, and some awesome trips! And so. much. sketching.
I'm already working on a lot of the work for 2019, including rethinking my philosophy on sketching. Not changing it, but building on why I do it, why and how I teach it, and why I think everyone should and can do it.
I'm thinking about the "why and how" of sketching while thinking about teaching more sketching workshops - something I've been thinking about since the USk Symposium in Porto. I'm reading up on creativity and on the mental and physical benefits of sketching, drawing, and doodling for talks coming up in 2019, and I'm working hard to bring this all together to share with other people who love sketching, or who do not yet know that they love sketching.

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Here's a list of what I did in 2018:
  • Showed Two Stories of Iceland - paintings and drawings - at Crosstown Arts (right - installation shot by Chip Pankey)
  • Art talk about show at Crosstown Arts
  • Art talk at Houston High
  • Taught four classes and one workshop at Flicker Street Studio
  • Took a class at Flicker Street Studio
  • Started a new job
  • Attended the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Porto, Portugal (below - sketch of Portugal)

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  • Attended the STC Conference in Orlando
  • Went on a road trip with Toby (right - South Seas Tiki Bar in Charleston, SC)
  • Went to Mardi Gras with eight of my favorite people
  • Went to Portland, Maine
  • Went to my Mom's in Naples, FL, twice
  • Worked with Kristen Haas Curtis to create By the Bones, a diary comic game
  • Filled four and a half books with diary comics​
  • Made 15 to 20 other not-diary comics (below)​

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  • Filled about seven sketchbooks
  • Started new paintings for a show in 2019 (top image - in progress)
  • Created an illustration for Edible Memphis (right)
  • Participated in a group show at Flicker Street Studio (below - new work for the show - Eclipse, acrylic on old wallpaper, 2018)
  • Read 18 books

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At the Library

12/2/2018

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Yesterday the Memphis Urban Sketchers went to the library to sketch - this is the Benjamin Hooks or Central Library.  We are never sure what the weather will be like at the beginning of December, and yesterday did not disappoint with unexpected 70-degree weather. A few people went outside to sketch, but I went up to the top floor to sketch the view and a dichroic glass public art piece by Ed Carpenter.
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And here's a sketch from earlier in the year that I haven't posted here yet. It's from the Memphis Urban Sketchers' September gathering at the Memphis Farmers Market. It was definitely higher than 70 degrees that day!
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