October 6, 2006. It was a beautiful day to walk in the gardens behind the Pitti Palace. After visiting the picture galleries in the palace, we bought new boots for Elizabeth and had lunch near San... Read more >>

View of campsite, San Diego, California, September 1, 2004 I took up surfing kind of late in life, so I enrolled in the Paskowitz Family Surfing Camp to speed up my progress. One of the Paskowit... Read more >>

Crested Butte, Colorado, January 24, 2005 I’d gotten back from skiing kind of early one day and caught this sunset from the west-facing balcony. The sketch is pretty rough because the show... Read more >>

October 6, 2006. The fish market next to this canal on the Island of San Marco was being dismantled and cleaned as I sketched. It had been a cloudy day but the sun came out for a little while before... Read more >>

This is a sketch of Elizabeth after a day of skiing in Wyoming. We had a few really cold days last year so we came inside early and I had a chance to do some painting before the sun set. Read more >>

Jo Myers-Walker lives and works in an old bank building in Gilbert, Iowa. She has a shop where she sells her watercolors, brightly colored sculptures, ceramics, and multimedia pieces. The mother of... Read more >>

My bathroom is just fine for my morning routine, but women don’t seem to find it adequate. Sometimes I sketch Elizabeth as she struggles with her make-up in the cramped quarters. She has these... Read more >>

I paint the Bethesda Angel whenever I’m out of work. My commercial illustration work tends to ebb and flow, so on a slow day I'll ride my bike to the park and make a few sketches. She's always... Read more >>

Elizabeth really hates this painting. I did it in Wyoming, when we were on a ski trip. The day that was so cold that we left the mountain by two in the afternoon. Since posing is really boring, it's a... Read more >>

The medieval town of Conques, France, October 10, 2005 Elizabeth and I stopped here for lunch one day during a two-week driving tour in France. We found a table at this cafe and I was able to paint... Read more >>