Steph
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Urban sketching in Midtown
This was a very enjoyable morning, sketching the outside of the bookstore in Midtown, chatting with my fellow urban sketching enthusiasts. The abundance of lines, parallels and overlaps had me feeling a bit overwhelmed as I got deeper into this sketch. But in the end I somehow managed to keep all those lines in order!…
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View from an afternoon hike
Every time I walk this trail, I’m enamored by the sudden appearance of the blue ridge in the distance when the trail breaks onto this field. And every time I’m disappointed by the inability of a phone camera to capture anywhere near the beauty of the scene. This time I tried to capture it with…
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Art museum clock
Our urban sketching meetup was held in the local art museum on this rainy day. This clock caught my eye with its sculptural ornament and soft green highlights. Lines: Lamy Safari fountain pen with F nib and Noodler’s Bulletproof Black ink Colors: Prismacolor colored pencils; ink wash with Noodler’s Bulletproof Black ink in Pentel Aquash…
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Riverside garden
This ridgeline over the river is one of my favorite sketching subjects.
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Ren Faire market
A doodle while waiting for some friends to arrive at the Renaissance Faire. It was challenging and fun to capture the moving crowd.
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Hand with gold ring and peach
For a friend’s birthday. Painted in jelly gouache on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper while watching a long-play of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This took longer (6-ish hours) than most of my gouache paintings of the same size, because it took many iterations to nail the proportions of the hand.
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Autocross in the rain
Painted while watching my fiancé drive an amateur autocross course in the rain. Jelly gouache on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper.
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Tan dog
Painted with jelly gouache on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper, for a Christmas card for a pet owner.
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Revolutionary keychain
Designed in collaboration with Platts Fabrication. I drew the “Revolutionary” for this custom 3D-printed keychain.
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Chambersburg Plein Air 2024
Painted for a local plein-air competition, completed in 4 hours. Jelly gouache on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper.
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Blue hydrangeas
This started as a small sketch to test out Copic alcohol markers. But they were so fun to use that I couldn’t stop 🙂
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Hyacinths in a green vase
Painted on a whim during the pandemic after a day of gardening. Acrylic on canvas.
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Blue flag irises
Illustrated for my mom’s birthday years ago, based on a photo of blue flag irises from a neighbor’s yard. Lines are sumi (charcoal) ink applied with dip pen. Colors are Copic alcohol markers.
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Camp Hill Plein Air 2024
Painted with jelly gouache “en plein-air” on a gray, rainy day for a local plein-air painting competition.
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Tree-lined country road
One of my first plein-air paintings, in pallet watercolors on Arches hot-pressed watercolor paper. A windy day made this on-site painting a struggle.
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Chihuahua
Painting in jelly gouache, for a Christmas card for a pet owner. My reference photo had fairly stark lighting, which made this subject more fun.
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Daffodils and ladybug
Lines are sumi (charcoal) ink, applied with a dip pen on Bristol board. Colors are Copic alcohol markers. Illustrated for my grandmothers’s 80th birthday.
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D.Gray-man page redraw
A redraw of page 27 of the first volume of the manga series D.Gray-man, which I completed as part of a 20th anniversary fan-led redraw project. The original page on which I based my new layout can be seen below. You can read the full zine here (pages turn in right-to-left manga format). The password…
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Market produce
With the farmer’s market as today’s sketching location, I knew it would be pretty ambitious to capture so much activity in gouache alone, so I brought a fountain pen and a cheap portable watercolor palette instead. I relied on ink lines to capture shapes quickly so that I would have time to drop some color…
