The Benton-Franklin Master Gardener Demonstration Garden in Kennewick, behind the Mid-Columbia Library, has 25 different gardens featured ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmgarner/sets/72157635002161622/ I drove up to Spokane yesterday, August 8th, to meet up with Don Walls an...

Yesterday the Allied Arts folks held a "First Friday Paint-In" on their patio so I dropped by to see what and how they do that.  H...

  Went sketching with Nancy and Jim on Wednesday. I am very grateful that they explained the one vanishing point perspective to me. I th...

Fun morning sketching with Jim & Jean today!  Great opportunity to talk about perspective!

Jean, nancy and I went sketchcrawling this morning in The Parkway in Richland.  The weather was very cooperative.  The sun wasn't thoug...

I tried to sketch the big event, and it was such a challenge. I knew I needed to simplify the scene to make the sketch work, but little by...

Sitting under a tree in the shade... Everyone moved so quickly, all I could capture were their faces.  I really enjoy doing this...

We met this morning at 10 am for the Art-in-the-Park sketchcrawl.  Four locals, Jean Fu, Yichien Cooper, Nancy Thurston, and Jim Bumgarner, ...

A few Hanford buildings and White Bluffs behind. Red Mountain and PNNL across the Columbia River. A crazy sunset over Red...

click the sketch to see my other sketches from the event in the Bay Area.  It seems impossible for me to drive into San Francisco withou...

One of the great things about sitting in the "picnic" area of Costco is you can sketch people, galore.  I discovered the ones in...

Stopped in at the local Farmers' Market in Richland yesterday.  The weather was perfect, but finding a good parking spot was difficult....

Not an urban sketch because I used a reference photo from a friend who wanted me to sketch it for him for a gift for his wife rather tha...

Collioure, France As part of the 2 week Montfaucon Workshop,  we took an over-night trip to Collioure, France which is only about...