Jennifer Lawson

Day 6 of the Every Day in May challenge—something tart or sour. Lots of lemon and lime trees in my parents garden here in Northern Californi...

Day 5 of the challenge—Scissors. I have way more than I need—hoarding? Most of these brightly colored handle scissors are in drawers, in the...

Day 4 of the Every Day in May challenge. Hand crafted salt and pepper grinders filled with sea salt and fresh pepper grounds. "I'm ...

Day 3 of the Every Day in May challenge. 2011 unfolded far from what I had planed and I could not imagine the rocky path I had suddenly stum...

Day 2 of the Every Day in May challenge. A power plug from Ikea made this a much more fun thing to draw and paint.

After a long time of working through the sad days that crippled my creativity, I decided to take action to get back into doing what I used t...

The Blues : I like when things are settled and dependable, but life isn’t like that and there are times when we outgrow something, it outgro...

...that keep me from sketching. I am so out of practice that my drawings are a mess. I walk by my sketchbook and paints everyday. Not sure w...

One day I decide to take the Balinese mesh canopy off the bed. It exposed the skylight in the ceiling letting more light into the room. Howe...

It just keeps snowing and snowing and last week it got colder and colder and colder. One morning when we awoke it was -20° and we needed to ...

Tulip and Lily 9 x 12 I got a pet portrait commission from a friend in California—Tulip and Lily these cute Boston Terriors. I decided to ge...

I spend a fair amount of time at LaGuardia airport. It is the "one-stop" between Portland and DC. I do not sketch as much as I wou...

A wonderful consulting job came my way around Christmas that I couldn't pass up. So since then, every week I am on plane to the Washingt...

22" x 30" graphic stick I have been a little under the weather lately and didn't have much energy for the last portrait class ...

My second day in DC and just as cold as the first one. Back on the Metro to the Smithsonian and almost everyone is alseep. I spent sevral ho...

I had never been to Washington DC until last week when Jerry was attending a sustainability conference so off I went to our nations capitol....

Sophie and I went out to Cape Elizabeth the other afternoon to puppy sit for Sang, a nine week old Weimaranar. I was rainy and cold, but we ...

After an 8 mile early morning walk I sat down at my messy corner of the dining room table to sketch my sneakers. Since I am starting the ...

I bought a bag of cranberries with the good intention of making some kind of holiday cranberry thing. Of course, that never happened so I pa...

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind" (Seneca) I will be leaving for Bali in January and not returning to the ...