Jennifer Lawson

I attended the 3rd Annual International Urban Sketchers Symposium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic July 12-14. It was my second USK sym...

The "Mercado Merengue"  workshop was taught by Melanie Reim and Nathalie Ramirez. A busy place where they sell everything from ha...

Nina Johansson's workshop "Challenge Through Limitations" forced us out of our comfort zones by trying different techniques ...

While washing the upper most windows on the deck I had a bit of a "mishap". Not realizing the small bench I was using to reach...

I have been back in the USA for a little over a week. The weather has been perfect for those wonderful long days of summer on the Maine coa...

Buah untuk dijual (fruit for sale) —On my second to last day in Bali, I walked to a pharmacy located out on the busy highway, then winding...

Ibu— (Ibu) Most days I run or walk along the beach in Sanur—a three mile paved path dotted with hotels. By midmorning the path is bustlin...

We leave Bali in a week. I am trying to get in as much sketching as possible, but with limited days and so much to do, it is hard to get it...

My Agung is the highest peak and still an active volcano on this island island. It is 3,031 meters (9,944 ft) and the mo...

I found a block of Portofino Acquerello left over from when I was last here two years ago. I brushed off the cobwebs and started to wande...

I arrived in Bali a week ago after two years away. Much of the first week was getting used to the time change, trying to understand what ev...

...so I'm going back to find it.  It has been almost two years since I was last on the "Island of the Gods" and a few day...

                                                  Spring in Maine means Fiddleheads. Tightly curled ferns break through the forest f...

Cody 6x6 oil on panel Cody is a very cute "Schnoodle" owned by my good friend and coworker Ellen in Potomac MD. For a year...

Sophie and the Pitbulls Sophie and I live in the Old Port section of Portland Maine, a shopping/restaurant/waterfront part of town wher...

Quick sketches from last weeks travel to work and back and then a few days home. Spring nor'easter started to blow through yesterday...

Weekly commuting make it more difficult to keep up with sketching, especially when it comes to adding watercolor. I've starting throwing...

My creative consulting job takes me weekly to Potomac Maryland. Last week, after being away for three weeks, I arrived to all the glory of f...

March in Maine is usually cold, snowy, rainy, sleety and gray and this relentless dreary weather usually lasts through most of April. Spring...

My dear old dad hasn't been very well lately, so off I went to California to help my family get him back on his feet. My parenst have be...