train painting

Taking a three-day tour of the greater Chicago area with a great group of kids and teachers - musicians all - does not leave a whole lot of extra time for drawing or painting. But you take the moments when they come! Jazzmin, Liza, Casey and I spent a few wonderful minutes, as a train sped us from Chicago to Wheaton, painting and drawing in a Strathmore art journal with a large, floppy (some would say "useless"…ok, that was me) paintbrush we nicknamed "The Mop", plus a smaller, sleeker brush, a box of little squidges of watercolor paint, a graphite stick, and a fountain pen.

Later on, Liza and I used The Mop again, in the dim light of the overnight train, to create 2 more pages. Her new sea turtle made from stone, which she bought at the aquarium, is featured in the corner of one of them:

Here's a diagram of our trip, with a tree by Daphne:

Wish I could have fit that all on one page, but it was too big...

Thanks to my fellow artists!

It was so much fun painting, traveling, and playing music with you.