Category: Landscape
Posted on August 4, 2018
by Christine
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(Quick 6 minute speed demo) Queen Anne’s Lace is my favorite weed. When I was a child, I grew up next to an empty lot in the city and in the summer time the field was dressed in lace. Tall laced flowers dancing in… Continue Reading “Let’s Paint a Field of Queens VIDEO”
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, free art demonstration video, hiking, Landscape, nature, sketchbook, step by step painting, watercolor sketchingTags: art, Artwork, demo, how to, nature, queen annes lace, sketchbook, step by step, video, watercolors
Posted on December 23, 2017
by Christine
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Not only are the reeds frozen, but the animal tracks are too. Frozen in time. They tell a story which I love to read when hiking in nature. I have to put the pieces together from this story… whose tracks? When were they made?… Continue Reading “Reeds Frozen in Time Watercolor”
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, Landscape, nature, Nature Sketching, sketch book, sketchbook, watercolor painting, watercolor sketchingTags: #letspaintnature, art, Artwork, fine art, hiking, journal, nature, painting, sketch, sketchbook, snow, watercolors, winter
Posted on December 3, 2017
by Christine
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Did you ever receive an original painting or drawing as a Christmas card? If you did, how did it make you feel? I bet it made you feel extremely special. Just knowing that the person who sent it to you didn’t grab a generic… Continue Reading “Let’s Paint an Easy Christmas Card! Yes you can do this!!”
Category: art, Artwork, Landscape, nature, watercolor paintingTags: art, Artwork, Christmas, Christmas cards, Christmas painting, Christmas pines, how to paint, how to paint snow, how to paint snow pines, how to paint watercolor snow, nature, painting, pines, sketch, sketchbook, snow, step by step watercolor, watercolor, winter
Posted on November 26, 2017
by Christine
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Setting Sun Mild 59°F As the sun sets it casts an amber glow to everything it touches. The dried grasses blaze and pine boughs glisten. A radiant moment indeed. Friday I caught this moment and simplified it. Instead of painting every single thing in… Continue Reading “Elegant Pines of a Setting Sun Watercolor”
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, hiking, Landscape, nature, sketch book, sketchbook, watercolor painting, watercolor sketchingTags: art, Artwork, autumn, hiking, journal, nature, painting, pine tree, pine tree watercolor, simple watercolors, sketch, sketchbook, watercolors
Posted on September 28, 2016
by Christine
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As the leaves blow by and the air turns slightly cooler, I know it’s a race against time. Autumn is here and it doesn’t like to linger. So I’m trying to get out as much as possible. Last Saturday I had the chance to… Continue Reading “Rice Lake at Danada Forest Preserves Watercolor Sketch”
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, hiking, Landscape, nature, sketch book, sketchbook, watercolor sketchingTags: art, Artwork, danada, dupage forest preserves, forest, hiking, nature, painting, rice lake, watercolor
Posted on July 30, 2016
by Christine
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I sit underneath an oak tree whose arms sprawl against an intense blue sky this cool brilliant morning. The arms of the oak becomes a playground to the chickadees that delight here. Puffy clouds move southwest rather rapidly. The air is sweet, but I… Continue Reading “Nature at Fabyan Windmill – Watercolor”
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, Landscape, nature, sketch book, sketchbook, watercolor painting, watercolor sketchingTags: art, Artwork, fabyan windmill, geneva IL, journal, nature, painting nature, sketch, sketchbook, watercolor
Posted on December 3, 2015
by Christine
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Crabapple Lake Morton Arboretum Lisle, IL The midday sun did its best to melt the snow, But only the hilltops relented, exposing green of grass. Did remaining snow call in clouds for help? Thaw on pause… For now. The day before Thanksgiving my workplace… Continue Reading “Melting Snow at Crabapple Lake Watercolor”
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, God, Landscape, nature, Nature Sketching, Paint His Love, poetry, sketch book, sketchbook, watercolor painting, watercolor sketchingTags: art, Artwork, crabapple lake, faith, fear, fear not, God, Jesus, journal, morton arboretum, nature, nature poetry, painting, peace, poem, poetry, sketch, sketchbook, snow, watercolor, winter, worry
Posted on September 22, 2015
by Christine
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Sometimes in life you need to retreat. You need to reach over and hit the pause button so that you can regroup. Current events becoming too overwhelming? ….pause button. Work driving you mad? ….pause button. Feeling like you’re spinning your wheels not getting anywhere?… Continue Reading “My Strategic Withdrawal, CITW Part 1”
Category: art, Artwork, butterfly, God, hiking, Landscape, monarch, nature, Nature Sketching, sketchbookTags: art, Artwork, Christ in the Wilderness, IL, pilgramage, retreat, sketch, sketchbook, Stockton, watercolor
Posted on February 18, 2015
by Christine
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Oh Winter Sycamore~ Your camouflage skin failed. You grew it in vain. Against the black of pine, you radiate in contrast. But I like that unlikeness about you, your nonconformity… Don’t hide it. Be distinct. It’s your calling. The sycamore tree has a very… Continue Reading “Sycamore Stands Alone Winter Watercolor Sketch”
Category: art, Artwork, Chicago, Landscape, nature, Nature Sketching, poetry, sketchbook, watercolor sketchingTags: art, Artwork, camouflage, journal, painting, poem, sketchbook, sycamore, tree, watercolor, watercolor sketching, winter
Posted on February 4, 2015
by Christine
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Snow covers and mutes evening. Hush at dusk. Just when colors awake. Have you ever noticed that colors in the landscape come alive just before dark? Or how quiet it gets right after it snows? Oh the JOYS of winter! I never outgrew the… Continue Reading “Snowy Winter Tree”
Category: art, Artwork, Landscape, nature, watercolor painting, weatherTags: art, Artwork, poem, snow, snow painting, tree, watercolor, winter, winter snowy tree, winter tree painting