If you take your sketchbook along on a hike then your sure to find a inspiration in the landscape. If your not able to go out and actually draw from life, a video might do the trick. I like to sketch and take video while out in nature, and then archive what I have on…
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Working on some dream landscape for a series on my own memory palace. The Method of Loci (plural of Latin locus for place or location), also called the memory palace, is a mnemonic device introduced in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero’s De Oratore, and Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria).…
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This outdoor water feature attracts lots of bird. It’s fun to watch – so why not setup a web camera and commune with nature from my comupter desk? I’ve seen yellow birds, brown birds, and hummingbirds. I’ve got a quick guide of local birds and I think they might be Hutton’s Vireo, Wilson’s Warbler, Lesser…
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The Santa Barbara Arts and Crafts Show was established in 1965 by local artists. It’s an arts festival on Sunday that is at the beach and includes original drawings, paintings, graphics, sculpture, crafts and photography. I have been many times, having grown up in the area. I have always been inspired by artist who travel…
Read MoreTwo painters that I love are Monet and O’Keeffe. Not only do I enjoy most of the work but I’m inspired by the images of them creating art in a place. They both had a landscape that informed their art… Monet had his garden and O’keeffe the west. There is something very appealing to me…
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I have a new home in Santa Barbara and a new puppy! Art has been on hold as I relocate my studio… I hope to be back in the studio by June. In the mean time… I’ll be drawing Lucky and the Santa Barbara landscape…
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