When one of my drawing students or I finish a drawing, we often like to get it reproduced as prints, notecards, for a business card or a brochure, in a portfolio of work. . . so many potential uses! Back in the olden days, pencil was very difficult to reproduce either on a copy machine […]
A List of What’s Occupying My Time and Thoughts
Taxes We haven’t gotten our 1099s from Social Security yet and don’t know if they will come in the mail or if we have to do something impossible online to receive them. As if doing taxes wasn’t abhorrent enough, there are so many obstacles and difficulties just getting stuff ready for the accountant. Shoes I […]
February Around Here
This is the page for February in my 2026 calendar. I drew this in pencil (duh) from several photos taken a short distance up North Fork Drive in Three Rivers. The original is on a piece of 11×14” archival paper. It is for sale. $375 (plus tax if you live in California) or make me […]
More About Drawing Lessons
It is said that the best way to learn something is by teaching it to someone else. Hard to do that if you don’t understand the process yourself. Because my students get to know one another in group lessons, they often help each other. This thrills me, because I eavesdrop and get to witness that […]
A Peek into Drawing Lessons
Since 1994, I’ve been teaching people how to draw. Private lessons, group lessons with individualized help, and workshops. My drawing students are wonderful people, and I am so proud of them! We don’t meet in December, so students try to get their work finished by the end of November. Some do, some don’t. Some need […]
Four Assorted Boxing Day Thoughts
2. After the Yellow Tunnel oil painting dries again, I will put the finishing touches on it. I can print and write more neatly, sometimes it is just unimportant, such as when I am slamming out the notes as fast as they pop into my mind. 3. This is the best article and idea I […]
2026 Calendar
(SHARON, I moved the picture of the calendar back to lower on this post so you can skip it.) Around Here—and Sometimes a Little Farther, 2026 is a collection of new pencil drawings by your Central California artist. The drawings are mostly rural scenes, mostly from this often overlooked location in the heart of California. […]
Want to learn to draw?
Check out work by two of my drawing students. The first one is finished, and the second one is in progress. I teach people how to put on paper exactly what they see. It is the beginning of all art, in my opinion. (If a person can only see it in his mind, I cannot […]
Thinking Aloud About Old Notecards
I’ve been getting my art printed on notecards since 1987. In the olden days, a package consisted of 2 each of 5 designs. In the olden days, people communicated on cards and mailed them with a stamp rather than talking into a little machine and tapping something. This meant that I had 1000s of cards […]
Drawing with Pencils
I guess you could draw with chalk or a paintbrush or your finger on a fogged up window, but drawing with pencils is what I do. Student work It’s also what I teach. A returning drawing student had one month free for lessons before embarking on a new chapter of life. We dove right in, […]