Month: July 2025

Such fun, admittedly, not my best work this week, mistakes abound. I hate when that happens, but, gee-wizz, it does happen. I’ll Live and smile, hope you do too. My first painting this week is of my attempt at doing a sketch and wash of my local coffee place. Fortunately,…

I had a great plan to make bookmarks this week and so that is what I did. I was having problems painting, I am old and shaky so the bookmarks posted are a combination of water colour and water colour pencil crayons. My bookmark paper is 2″ X 6″ and…

I have been having fun drawing and painting postcard sized works as of late. I purchased the 4″ X 6″ watercolour paper on Amazon, 50 cards per package, and have been enjoying working in a less detailed world. The scanner doesn’t always pick up the colours as I have painted…

We all have that inner demon that longs to be fed a meal that will comfort the raging soul.  We all need that, not always good for the health, but great for the soul food, not to mention the mental health blessings that accompany the libatious delight. Some desire ice…

Blues on Halstad located across the street and up a bit from the Kingston Mines, in the city of Chicago IL.  It has been closed now for a few years, but when it was open, it had Magic.  What is the magic, well: Two gentle souls from New West hope…