It’s midwinter and that means it’s cold and dark in much of the northern hemisphere. The holiday season is history, tax forms are already in the mail, roads are a sloppy mess, trails are deep in snow, and the rushing waters are sheathed in ice. Happily, the days are now growing noticeably longer, but spring still seems impossibly distant, like a headland barely glimpsed across a broad, fog‑shrouded bay. All is not lost, however. There may not be many reasons for many of us to hit the roads for long pleasure rides on two wheels, or to take your boat down from its cradle during this season of hard water, but there’s no better time to relive the pleasures of seasons past. Just pull your dusty trip journals, sketchbooks, and photo albums off the shelves, or ransack the Pictures folder on your computer for saved digital images. Then settle back to enjoy a pleasant wander through the labyrinths of memory. But why stop there? Every journal entry, sketch, or photo contains within itself the seed of something more. Something new. A painting, perhaps. Or a pen‑and‑ink drawing, suitable for framing.

Interested? Good. Let’s shut the door to the garage and boathouse for the time being and move into the studio…Read more…

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