December 23,2021

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR to all.

We have had skirting put around our fifth wheel & have been busy painting the new siding.  Barbara now has herself a "She Shed" to put some of the stuff that has been in the closet & under the table or behind the recliners for 10 years.

I got more pens.  These are dip pens.  One is a traditional dip pen holder with interchangeable nibs & 2 are glass nib pens.  It has been fun learning how to write & draw with them.

Here are some line & wash efforts.

This is our great grand daughter Remy & her friend.  

Hope everyone has Happy Holidays with family & friends.

 November 27, 2021

I will put up some of our art work that we have done over the past few years.

Here are some of Barbara's acrylic paintings.

and some of my watercolors

and ink sketch from my sketchbook

 November 26, 2021

This is our set up at Verde Valley Thousand Trails.

 11/21/2021

I got a new fountain pen & ink so I did a doodle of a waterfall:

Here are some of my previous line & wash work:

 11/11/21

Since the last post we took a short trip to Payson where we stayed for 2 nights.  On the way up we stopped at Tonto Natural Bridge State Park to look around.  It is very interesting geology.  

I think I have figured out how to get photos of our art added to our posts.

These are some of my doodles with fountain pen ink.

This is Barb's latest painting with acrylics.

And here are her latest drawings using graphite pencils.  She is not finished with the background mountains on the elk drawing, but I was on a roll transferring the photos from my phone to email to the blog so I will put the finished drawing up later.

I am still taking classes on morse code.  The classes are Zoom meeting with volunteer instructors with the Long Island CW Club.  I am improving but have not had many contacts on the radio to practice sending & receiving.

 October 31, 2021

I sketched this using 5 different fountain pens & 5 different color inks.

I will upload some more paintings & sketches in the next week.

 October 28, 2021

Another year another new interest.  Neither Barbara nor I have been doing anything with our art painting in the 2+ years we have been here at Verde Valley TT, but in the last couple of weeks we have started doing some painting, line & wash & fountain pen sketching.  

I have started urban sketching with fountain pens and then putting a watercolor wash on some of them.  My plan now is to upload some of them to this blog so our family and others can see what "the Olde Folkes" are doing.

I am going to have to figure out how to upload pictures again because I have not done it in several years.

More to follow.