This spring, so far, house sparrows have constructed nests in my cottage mailbox and in a quart Mason jar in our garage. When it comes to selecting a site to raise their young, they seem to favor…
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Try to be one of those people upon whom nothing is lost. — Henry James Look deeply: the skin of a ripe, red tomato is not an opaque layer of bright color. Just like our own skin, a tomato is…
Murdock in the Catnip – artwork (c)2008 Val Webb You don’t have to be a cat owner to justify growing catnip in your garden. It’s a beautiful herb with downy, heart-sha…
(9x12) Exercises for the online class I'm taking in drawing birds with Val Webb . Per Val's instructions, I used soft (4B and 8B) l...
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My online class in Watercolor Lettering has kept me very busy for the past several weeks, but on Saturday I had the pleasure of teaching a small workshop in a beautiful riverfront hideaway near Mos…
In our subtropical climate, most flowers grow better in the fall than during our oppressively hot summer months. An example? Petunias! I have several growing at the corners of the winter garden, bl…
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(c) 2007 Val Webb They lasted all through the blistering heat of our Alabama summer, but today I finally cut back the remaining purple coneflowers and brought some inside to paint. Here is the res…
Mockingbird nest study – colored pencil It’s been fun drawing the handiwork of a mockingbird architect. We take them for granted now, since they are so plentiful, but in the nineteenth …
In our subtropical climate, most flowers grow better in the fall than during our oppressively hot summer months. An example? Petunias! I have several growing at the corners of the winter garden, bl…
It’s Autumn – the perfect season for drawing pinecones. Just like a snowflake or a human fingerprint, each pinecone is unique. But all of them are constructed the same way, in an elegan…
Good news: now my popular “Botanical Sketchbook Painting” course is available on demand, anytime you want to begin — and you keep access to the course website for a full year. Whe…
The current session of my online course, Draw and Paint Fairies in Nature, will no longer accept new students after Oct. 1. If you are thinking of doing this 10-lesson course before the year’…
This helpful garden fairy, one of 20 drawings in a show that opens Sunday at The Artists’ Place, is created in colored pencil. I like to start out with a fully shaded foundation drawing in da…
Especially if you are used to the flowing intensity of watercolor paints or the precise control of a traditional colored pencil, this hybrid art medium can be tricky at first. The very characteris…
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…I worked on a relief carving of a purple coneflower instead.
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I live in a place where it’s not unusual to hear the “who-cooks-for-you?” call of barred owls, especially just before dawn. Eerily beautiful with their pale faces and dark eyes (t…
If you’ve been wondering whatever became of those pencil studies of citrus fruit, here’s a peek at the final result. This old-fashioned fruit crate label was commissioned by Mobile Bota…
One of my favorite parts of drawing garden subjects is the unexpected discovery of some startling bit of botanical history — a story that pops up like an unexpected seedling and demands to be…
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Summer in south Alabama isn’t a season. It’s a siege. When you wait until 11:30 at night to walk your dog, and even then your back porch thermometer is stubbornly stuck on 95 degrees…
I’m delighted to announce that all 11 of my previous online art courses are being converted to an on-demand, “start anytime” format with a full year of video access. The first thr…
This spring, so far, house sparrows have constructed nests in my cottage mailbox and in a quart Mason jar in our garage. When it comes to selecting a site to raise their young, they seem to favor…
Eyes are challenging to draw, but they are also a lot of fun — and the eyes are often the key to expressing human emotion in a drawing. Here’s a short, step-by-step tutorial on drawing …
