A Creative Journey, by Michael Mitchell

Here are the other sketches from the California Auto Museum Plein air Painting Meet-up .  This top one is a quick pencil sketch of the ca...

Painting cars has never been something that I have done much of since my goal is to be out in nature as much as possible, but I was invited ...

So I finally get outside to do some plain air painting with our Plein Air Meetup group, and its 106 degrees out! I wonder why only a couple ...

Today was such a beautiful day in Sacramento, I just had to get outside.  I've been cooped up inside because of rain or just being to c...

Back to Patris Art Studio for more figure drawing opportunities!  I'm not much of a plein aire fan when its cold  or the weather is un...

I haven't done a drawing from a model for over 20 years, back when I was in college. So in the spirit of trying new things, I went to P...

On a cold winter Saturday morning, I went down to the American River to practice some wet-on-wet techniques. The sky was more of a dark gre...

I went to William B Pond for the regular “1 st Sunday” meet-up of plein aire painters at 3:00 in the afternoon. There are tons on places ...

The Artist's Way,  by Julia Cameron, is a book focused on the spiritual path to higher creativity.  It helps artists discover what is b...

June 9 - On a beautiful Saturday morning, I decided to go to Effie Yeaw Nature Area for a paint-out where artists were suppose to paint a...

For my birthday, my wife had gifted me an acrylic painting class at Michael's.  I had been commenting that I had been seeing a lot of p...

My first outing with the Plein Aire Meet-up group to Sutter-Jensen Community Park was interesting but also a little intimidating. Not tha...

March 17, 2012 - After meeting Rose and her husband at William B Pond, a couple of fellow plein aire painters, I went home and looked up...

March 4, 2012 - I went back to William B Pond, with my family this time, on a lazy Sunday afternoon (the plus side of having a mild winter)...

The Islands My next artist excursion a couple of weeks later, was to William B. Pond at the end of Arden Way along the American ...

 So I go to Michael's and pick up the bare essentials: a generic watercolor paint set with 12 colors, a generic set of brushes, a smal...

Ceramic Cookie Jar -College Ceramics Class   Welcome to my Art Blog.  I've been getting back into my art this year after setting it ...