We pick up our son Dan at the airport and head into the mountains. There we meet our other son Frank. He's a glassblower and a tiny-...

Denver Botanic Gardens  by James Gurney,   casein, 5 x 8 inches We visit the Denver Botanic Gardens , a world class destination for out...

Predawn, Denver, Gouache We arrive after dark to our hotel in Denver, and I wake up early. Here's the view from my window as the da...

We roll along on the small roads through the middle of the country. This old storefront is in Russell, Kansas. The sign at the top once ...

Marceline, Missouri is the small town where Walt Disney spent his boyhood. I stop to sketch a farm at the edge of town near the Disney fa...

The corn harvest is still going strong in Illinois and Indiana. Yellow mountains of corn are piling up at the edges of towns. N...

Come with Jeanette and me on a sketching journey across America. Destination— the high mountains of Colorado, where we'll meet up wit...

Gouache is an effective medium for portraits. Here are some examples by Valentin Serov (1865-1911) to serve as inspiration. Portrait of...

"Always I've had a sketch book on me...."  "...And it doesn't matter how bad the sketch may be..." ...

Every evil mastermind needs an assistant. His pale eyes are wide open, and his long, bony fingers timidly hold the magic lantern.  ...