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an ink drawing of this little stone building and the lush flower pots in front and added colour later i was lucky to visit the village of ribeauvillé twice once with the group from the rhine cruise and once with my alsace group the spread above combines two demos from different days i started with the fountain and window on the right and then extended the panorama with a row of houses the following week of course it was absolutely necessary to add grapevines to our sketchbooks alongside little stone and buildings and a belfry my favourite view see below was from the vineyards high above the town you get a real sense of the hilly landscape in alsace where so much land is given over to growing grapes on our final days in alsace we took a day trip to strasbourg where we sat along the canal and drew the large timbered houses of la petite france as it turns out you can get an awful lot of sketching in when you do it every day for a week i think we captured pretty much everything the near and far homes steeples and shops birds and plants quite of few villagers and lots and lots of history the only thing is missing is the food but i am not really a food sketcher i d rather eat what s in front of me than let it get cold as always my heartfelt thanks to french escapade for taking us to such great places and of course to the wonderful students in the group we had so much fun together didn t we water soluble ink experiments posted august 17 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags boathouses hudson ink and watercolour 11 comments i appreciate having time at home to experiment with materials for the past week or two i ve been drawing with an assortment of red and yellow inks and then adding watercolour to them this is a follow up to the echinacea that i painted last week on thursday i met my friend susanne strater for a sketching session at greenwood centre in hudson she worked in pastel and i drew with my lamy pen that was filled with ancient copper ink if you happen to be in hudson greenwood is a very welcoming place to sketch and the hydrangeas are at their peak right now on the weekend we visited friends at their camp in the northern adirondacks my favourite time of day to sketch when we visit is in the early morning when the water is very calm the only company i have then besides alice is the loons the ducks and the occasional high flying eagle i used noodler s apache sunset ink now called southwest sunset and dip pen for this drawing and added watercolour on top of that this morning i was back in hudson sitting on a bench and drawing a view of main road i used a stabilo point 88 fineliner in sanguine for my initial drawing it s a water based ink but it releases less pigment than the two previous inks august echinacea posted august 10 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet echinacea ink and watercolour 19 comments like everything else that i ve done this summer i m a little late in getting out to paint in my garden that s why in this week s bouquet the blooms are all a little past their prime but that makes them so much more interesting to paint i get droopy petals curled leaves and darks where there should be brights my drawing was done with water soluble ink and watercolour was added on top of that here s another bouquet that i painted the same way before the rain posted august 6 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags boats plein air watercolour pointe claire yacht club 7 comments i got an early start at the breakwater today in an attempt to beat the heat the morning started off hot and sunny i set up on the shady side of my car but then a heavy humid air mass rolled in the sky darkened and the air was still my washes started off quite light but as the humidity descended my painting darkened too not long after i finished the sky opened up but by that time i was back in my car painted on a quarter sheet of saunders cp 140lb paper august breakwater posted august 4 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags boat painting plein air watercolour pointe claire yacht club 3 comments i m a little late for the start of boat painting season but better late than never i ve painted this view of the pointe claire yacht club countless times but it never gets old i have my spot under a tree in a beautiful park in the good company of picnickers dog walkers cyclists and the odd pedestrian who looks over my shoulder for a time on a warm summer day i can think of no better place to paint i did have my plein air easel with me but ended up painting this quarter sheet on my lap because a lever was missing from my tripod making it impossible to attach the tray that holds my paper but it didn t matter there was nothing that was going to stop me from painting my favourite summer scene painted on a quarter sheet of arches rough paper 140 lb the view from my studio posted august 3 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags hydrangeas still life watercolour window sill 18 comments we ve had a lot of rain over the past two days so much that my hydrangeas are flopping over and blocking the view from my studio window it was my intention to paint the old bottles on the window sill today but when i saw the hydrangeas i thought i would incorporate them into my painting it was a bit of an odd experiment because usually things outside the window are further away and often lighter in value or at least treated with a lighter range of values to separate inside and outside but in this case they were right up against the glass so i incorporated lots of darks painted on a quarter sheet of saunders waterford cp 140 lb using a limited palette of burnt sienna quinacridone gold payne s grey and carbazole violet and a bit of titanium white at the very end for highlights zinnias posted july 31 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags bouquet flowers watercolour zinnias 27 comments my favourite thing this summer season is going to the u pick garden when i collect my weekly csa farmer basket at ferme tournesol this year the zinnias have been terrific such a variety of different shapes and bright colours for me to paint for this summer bouquet i used a palette that i have filled with bright holbein reds pinks and oranges that were just right for this bouquet i am still waiting for my scanner cable but it should arrive tonight one of the things i like about scanned watercolours is that i don t pick up the paper texture like i do with a photo but for now this will suffice painted on a block of millford paper seven days on the rhine posted july 29 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized 18 comments today was supposed to be a day of scanning all my sketches from a recent trip to europe but my scanner did not cooperate after 15 years as my trusty scanner it has either died or needs a new power adapter i hope it s the latter which is a much cheaper option the adapter is on order and i will know more as soon as it arrives if the scanner itself has reached the end of its life i will thank it and say that i certainly got my money s worth i m not exaggerating when i say that i ve scanned thousands of sketches with it and it has always worked perfectly i have always preferred scanned sketches to photographed ones i find the colour is truer and the images require fewer adjustments in photoshop to brighten the whites and get them to match the originals but in the interests of time today i took my book outside and photographed my sketches in the overcast light of this rainy day they re not as sharp as the scans i am used to but they will do for now and now for the sketches i m never sure what to put on the first page of a new sketchbook but this time it was easy i was in europe to teach a french escapade workshop on a rhine river cruise boat along with my very talented friends brenda swenson and suhita shirodkar so i designed some lettering for the page and added a sketch of a decorative ceramic frieze that i saw above a door in amsterdam we spent a few days before the cruise with good friends in amsterdam and besides visiting the rembrandts and the vermeers at the rijksmuseum we had some time to draw along the canals can you spot the girl with a pearl earring in my sketch the river journey started in amsterdam imagine 45 sketchers boarding the boat with all their gear and ended in basel switzerland along the way we had tons of fun sketching at the open air museum in arnhem and then in nijmegen cologne mainz strasbourg and ribeauvillé below are my spreads from the trip including some workshops demos and some sketches done on free afternoons windmills old wooden boats timbered houses the people on another boat when we were side by side in one if the many locks we went through along the way and of course the very gothic cathedral in cologne i regret not taking more photos of the sketchers on location in all of these places but i was too busy teaching and sketching thankfully our wonderful organizers from french escapade did a lot of that have a look at their instagram or facebook feeds to see some videos of the fantastic work from our talented group it was thrilling to see all of the sketchbooks on our final night together tomorrow or when my scanner cable arrives i ll post the sketches from my second teaching week this time in alsace and if it turns out that my scanner is trusty no more i will be certainly asking for recommendations less than perfect posted june 29 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags flower painting watercolour 15 comments in my studio i still have piles of sketches from this spring s travels waiting to be scanned here s one from my recent workshop in connecticut the property of the inn where we were based has beautiful landscaping and plenty of hanging baskets and flowers in containers but for a first day exercise we used a limited triad cobalt blue quinacridone rose and hansa yellow and i chose a less than perfect subject for my demo and by less than perfect i mean i chose the only dead plant on the property to paint much to the dismay of pat my organizer the yellowing banana leaves were a great contrast in shape and colour to the blooming plants next to them but i have a feeling that by the time the next painter arrives at the inn this pot will be relegated to the recovery garden this was painted on a block of millford cp paper 10 x 14 gardening day at silas w robbins house posted june 23 2026 author shari blaukopf filed under uncategorized tags architecture sketch connecticut ink and watercolour sketch ink sketch silas w robbins house 17 comments have a look at the silas w robbins house you ll understand why i wanted to draw it it s an impeccably maintained victorian home in wethersfield connecticut i won t list all of the architectural details but if you are interested in the history of the house and how it was restored after a roof fire you can read about it here i drew this with my students as part of last week s workshop with artists rising retreats our drawing session happened to coincide with landscaping day on the property and from what i observed the gardens are as beautifully maintained and colour coordinated as the house in my workshop demo i simplified a lot of the details on the house which you will see when you look at a photo of the facade but i tried to convey the grandeur of it as well as its position on the corner lot amongst the plants and trees and if there are thanks to give for the beauty of this scene it s most definitely to the landscapers who donned their orange t shirts for the occasion older entries 4 inspiring courses 1 full length demo my essential watercolour palette demo strengthen your skills 3 courses plus 1 demo rugged rocks and sea online course follow my blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 10 4k other subscribers wet in 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