Cortesia Sanctuary, in the woods outside Eugene, Oregon

Welcome to Tricia Clark-McDowell’s world – Cortesia. We were all so pleased to be here in the cool green forest.

       Barbara Stevens-Newcomb started the sharing with a colored pencil sketch she’d done in a class, and Penelope showed us leaf rubbings she’d done on tissue paper then glued to her sketchbook.

   She also shared a scene from her garden with Sharon Heinz, Barb Aten, and Tricia; then she looked more closely at Tricia’s sketchbook.

    Tricia and Sharon got busy sketching – here’s Tricia’s final sketch.

      Sharon was fascinated with the colorful coleus – she liked her outline sketch but what to do to capture the vivid colors? She got lots of suggestions from the group about how to add intensity & values.

      Barb Aten listens intently to Satoko’s comments, then gets her watercolors out to try her hand at the coleus leaf, too.

     Satoko scolded Jane – “You moved!” But despite the models refusing to hold still, she finished her sketch of three artists at the table.

      And Jane really was sketching, too – here’s her page about Cortesia.

      Penelope started with Tricia (across the table from her) and quickly added more people from around the table to her sketchbook.

      Sandy had the perfect challenge – a blank sketchbook page! So she started by doing the replication challenge, and then to taking a photo of Tricia’s monk statue which may be replicated in clay soon!