In December I posted an article about the sketchers I follow because I like their loose sketching style. I have been trying to adopt that style myself, but because of other drawing commitments (house commissions) I haven’t really had time to dedicate myself to practice enough.

This is my second attempt at creating a watercolor painting of a made up scene. I used only watercolor paint, no pencil or pen preliminary sketch.

Last August I posted a sketch/painting I’d done of two Lynchburg (VA) Main Street buildings on Facebook in a local Lynchburg group. I got comments asking if I sold my paintings or prints of them. I didn’t start this journey into art to sell the artwork I created so the inquiry was quite surprising.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I ordered the business card size Pocket Palette from Expeditionary Arts after seeing it at a workshop in Richmond, VA. But I didn’t just get the Pocket Palette, I ordered it as part of owner Maria Cornell-Martin’s Art Toolkit.

Built around 1808 by Charles Johnston, whose family had emigrated from Scotland, Sandusky served as Union Headquarters during the Battle of Lynchburg in 1864.