Tag: sketch
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Intrepid Artist
I am honored to have been asked by the Annapolis Watercolor Club to be the demonstrator at their meeting in September. I’m going to show one of my favorite ways of playing with color, Imaginative Color. I usually use three transparent pigments; for this picture I chose new gamboge (a yellow), quinacridone magenta, and cobalt…
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Time Out for Art: Electrical Repair
I got up this morning to find my son eating breakfast by flashlight. After a little exploration around the house, I discovered that some parts of the house had power while other parts did not. I could make a cup of coffee, but I would have to drink it in the dark. I could turn…
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Sailing on Cay of Sea: Continuing Homeward
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Sailing on Cay of Sea: We start our trip home
Usually we are one of the last boats to leave the rendezvous of Watkins boat owners, but this year, my niece was getting married and I was going early to help my sister, so we left late Sunday morning as the other boats were going out for a sail.
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Sailing on Cay of Sea: Saturday at the Watkins Rendezvous
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Sailing on Cay of Sea: Friday at the Rendezvous
Most of the boat owners who participate in the annual rendezvous live in the Norfolk/Hampton Roads, Virginia, area and arrive at the host marina on Friday. If the weather is nice, they sail in, or if the weather makes the trip difficult, or the boat has some problems, they may drive to the site. But…
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Sailing in Cay of Sea: Arriving at the Rendezvous
This will be the last journal entry that may make you seasick. The rest of our trip was much nicer!
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Watkins Rendezvous 2015 – Getting There
Every year since my husband retired, we join a group of other sailors who own boats made by Watkins. This is the first installment of my sketchbook record of our trip.
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Shakedown Cruise, 2015
Every year we do a shakedown cruise before going off on an extended trip. It is a chance to make sure all the systems work and that we have everything on board that was taken off when the boat was put away for the winter. For example, the past two years we discovered on the…
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Time Out for Art: Tree Surgeons
We had tree surgeons from Expert Tree Removal here this past week. They were cleaning up the “widow makers” or “hangers” as they called the large limbs of trees that had broken off but not fallen due to a storm earlier in the summer. I took time out to watch them and drew this picture.…