Sketching in Nature

SILVER BIRCH BARK

My silver birches have beautiful bark and looking carefully I can see quite a few different colours, sketched here in Derwent drawing...

JOURNAL - PERSIMMONS - SPLASH AND SPLATTER - LIN FRYE, NC

Journal - Splash and Splatter - Inspired by the season's persimmons.

CHRISTMAS ROSE OR POINSETTIA

Perhaps you share the same poinsettia experience as me? You buy this lovely plant weeks before Christmas as an eye-catching floral...

SKETCHING TREES

I've just started a new project to draw the trees in my garden, starting with my silver birches.One morning this week the sun was shining...

JOURNAL - LOOKING GLASS FALLS - VERSION 2 - LIN FRYE, NORTH CAROLINA

Journal - Decided to try a second version of these beautiful falls in the Pisgah National Forest.

JOURNAL - LOOKING GLASS FALLS - LIN FRYE - NORTH CAROLINA

Journal - Looking Glass Falls - Version 1, Pisgah National Forest, NC

TRAVEL JOURNAL -BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY - LIN FRYE - NORTH CAROLINA

Travel Journal - Despite the rain and cold that followed, we had one glorious day to explore Pisgah National Forest, see some amazing...

TRAVEL JOURNAL- TANGLEWOOD PARK TRAIL - LIN FRYE - NC

TRAVEL JOURNAL- LEAF COLOR CHANGE

Travel journal...Found a bit of leaf color change in Asheboro NC

JOURNAL - SPLASH AND SPLATTER PUMPKINS - LIN FRYE, NORTH CAROLINA

Journal - I love this time of year - all those fall colors and especially pumpkins.

AUTUMN GATHERINGS

A lovely autumnal walk with my daughter at Ramster garden yielded a collection of colourful leaves of which this is my favourite, drawn...

JOURNAL - SPLASH AND SPLATTER ROSE HIPS - LIN FRYE - NORTH CAROLINA

Love Rose Hips!

JOURNAL - SUNSET BEACH - LIN FRYE - NORTH CAROLINA

Journal - Last of my sketches from short trip to Sunset Beach - Sunset Beach

MANDARIN DUCK COUPLE RESTING ON A RIVER BANK IN A FOREST

The mandarin ducks have carefully chosen a place to rest. They seems to blend in with the dark background, thus if necessary, they...

JOURNAL - SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPGROUND - LIN FRYE

Journal - Last of the Shenandoah Valley sketches Lin Frye, North Carolina

MISTLETOE TREES

I've always been fascinated by trees overtaken by mistletoe plants, love the round shapes of the plants silhouetted against the sky...

17TH CENTURY BRUNTENHOF GATE OF UTRECHT

One might object and say: 'But this is an urban drawing video and not sketching in nature'. Let me convince you to think differently....

JOURNAL - COZY ACRES GAZEBO - LIN FRYE

Journal - Though we worried where Hurricane Dorian was headed, the weather we had in Powhatan, VA was lovely. We tried to relax a bit...

JOURNAL - COZY ACRES CAMPGROUND, POWHATAN, VA - LIN FRYE

Journal - We evacuated to Virginia as Hurricane Dorian approached. Once we knew our home was okay, we could relax and enjoy our unexpected...

THE CARRARA QUARRIES- CONCETTA FLORE

Magic and incredible place, brimming with history and the huge achievements of us, tiny human beings, able to subdue the hard, heavy...