Pilgrimage

My family and I kicked off summer break last weekend with a trip to Santa Fe. As soon as I knew we had the trip planned a few months ago I booked an extended tour at Georgia's O'Keefe's house in Abiquiu. This is the second time I have toured her house. It's a living museum, left exactly how it was when she last left in the early 1980's. The last harvest of herbs is still hung in the pantry to dry.

Her house is endlessly inspiring, for art lovers, for design lovers, for history buffs. I snapped a picture of her famous black door in her patio. It is the reason, she said, she bought the house. She called it her "door with a wall" and painted it numerous times. It was fun to do my own illustration of such an iconic subject. I don't typically draw or paint structures but the adobe walls are forgiving as they are never quite straight.

Summer Nature Journaling classes have now been scheduled and are up on my website! These classes will be different than my typical classes. Rather than focus on drawing techniques for a specific topic, we will be visiting different locations and creating entire nature journaling entries together. We'll be outside, moving around and exploring. They are scheduled for 3 hours and start earlier, in hopes of avoiding monsoons that build by mid-day.