TWO Sketchbook Journaling Tips!

Hello dear creatives! ✨️ Here are 2 tips from my NO GUILT sketchbook practice.🌱 #1) This is real life, ✨️YOU WILL MISS DAYS✨️ if you're going for a daily practice. I just keep a tally when I'm able to jump back in...sometimes I do highlights of the days I missed and sometimes I just journal the present day. 🌱 #2) I have not had time to color in awhile so my pages have been black and white...the last few days I decided to journal with my fountain pen filled with a beautiful🩵 turquoise blue...it added immediate ✨️pizzazz! ✨️ You can do this with any colored pen or marker! ⚡️Try it, you'll like it...and share a snippet in the main feed so we can be inspired and cheer one another on! ⚡️ xoxo PS links to my favorite journaling supplie including this KAWECO FOUNTAIN PEN: HERE

Come Draw Your Heart Out June 11th!

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Draw Your Heart Out Workshop Learn the Art of Keeping a Daily Sketchbook JournalDraw out your happy, your sad and your demons…whatever is ricocheting in your brain, no matter how simple, small, silly, monumental (you can) draw it out and write it out….clear your mind. Learn to engage in creative play with words and images on a daily basis via your sketchbook journal.Where:         Anne’s Ravenswood Studio: *5014 N. Hermitage, Unit WSWhen:          Thursday, June 11th, 7-10 pmFee:              $48 includes 3 hour workshop +  all materialsSounds great, please SIGN ME UP!

A chemist, an art director, a printmaker...

...and a painter open a brand new sketchbook: and this is what happens!My first official Draw Your Heart Out Workshop was great fun! Stay tuned for upcoming dates in May and throughout the summer.

Last night...

Saw a lovely performance by Jose Gonzalez at Lincoln Hall last night...made for a colorful sketchbook entry this morning.

Are you ready to Draw Your Heart Out?

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Draw Your Heart Out Workshop Learn the Art of Keeping a Daily Sketchbook JournalDraw out your happy, your sad and your demons...whatever is ricocheting in your brain, no matter how simple, small, silly, monumental (you can) draw it out and write it out....clear your mind. Learn to engage in creative play with words and images on a daily basis via your sketchbook journal.

• Where: Anne's Ravenswood Studio: 5014 N. Hermitage, Unit WS

• When: Saturday, April 25th, 2-5pm

• Fee: $48 includes 3 hour workshop + sketchbook + pen

Sign Me Up!Choose from a soft or hard cover sketchbook:

Class +

Soft Cover Sketchbook $48.00 USD

Hard Cover Sketchbook $58.00 USD

Since 2001, Anne Leuck Feldhaus has used her sketchbook to chronicle her daily life, she has filled more than 30 volumes over the years. This three-hour workshop will help you learn to establish a similar practice.

Additional Details:

• Limited to 6 Students (all artistic levels are welcomed)

• BYOB Feel free to bring your own beverage, water will be provided.

• All materials are provided, including a sketchbook to take home—though you're encouraged to bring your favorite pens, markers or pencils.

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"Journaling, I believe, is a practice that teaches us better than any other the elusive art of solitude — how to be present with our own selves, bear witness to our experience, and fully inhabit our inner lives."   - Maria Popova"May I recommend a workshop that will change your studio practice and life itself? Anne is an artist who communicates with drawing and HEART like no one I know." - Laura Nugent

Happy Heart Day!

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A peek at my sketchbook...

So much to share and so little time to blog. In the mean time, here's a little peek at my sketchbook from earlier this month...drew this in Minneapolis over the course of an afternoon at the Uptown Art Fair. Note the bottom of the page 'I got lost last night'....(no, I do not have a gps and I have the most basic of old fashioned cell phones). I like good old fashioned maps, but did I have one? Of course not ; ) I was trying to find my way back to my friend's house in St. Paul, exhausted from the heat, tired, starving and with a killer headache. I couldn't get ahold of my friend or Rich (back in Chicago), to check on-line. Did what we all had to do in the old days, stopped at a gas station and some lovely residents of St. Paul were happy to point me in the right direction after declaring 'you are WAY far from where you want to be'...always grateful for the kindness of strangers.  

Wells Street Wrap Up Part II

If you've ever chatted with me at a show, chances are I told you all about my dogs and their influence on my art. So I was a little nervous about retaining my composure, since this was myfirst art fair since losing Izzy, and I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. As luck would have it, the Greyhounds Only rescue group were set up across from my booth at the Wells Street Show. They created a beautiful diversion, and also inspired me all weekend long. I did several drawings of them and in the midst of sharing with people about Izzy, did my first 'patron saint of' / post-pumpkin sketches.