@sbutlergraham.bsky.social
Artist, nature-lover, retired bilingual teacher
3 heroes standing up to Trump. Three cheers for Texas Representative Ann Johnson, CDC Director Susan Monarez, and Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook!
30.08.2025 22:34 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fish Frolic, 15x22” watercolor
27.08.2025 21:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beautiful colors!
27.08.2025 02:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Tomato season 💛❤️💛
25.08.2025 01:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A glorious, sunny morning at San Gregorio Beach! Got a couple of paintings out of it, and enjoyed my time with artist friends.
Water is certainly rejuvenating for me, even when I’m just looking at it
Firey Bloom, 15x11” watercolor
started last Monday in my friend’s garden
Today’s #quickportraits I did with #pencils4tea Thank you Mark @homebakedart for hosting us today, and thanks to all of the models! I got to model, too!
15.08.2025 05:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a soft and lovely watercolor!
14.08.2025 04:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Further developments on this flower painting. As a painting progresses, I spend less time painting and more time deciding what else it needs
14.08.2025 01:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wish I could be there
12.08.2025 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So lovely!
12.08.2025 14:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Began a few flower paintings in my friend’s garden. Because I’m having some arm pain, I tried using my non-dominant hand for the pencil sketch. The result: looser shapes and lines.
12.08.2025 01:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I cut up another abstract experiment and made a painting from the good pieces. A work in progress
03.08.2025 03:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quick sketches with #drawingisfree_org online
#quickportrait #watercolorsketch
Celebrated 31 wonderful years with this great guy. Thanks for being my best friend all these years, Hugh!
24.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First harvest handful #polebeans
19.07.2025 22:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Made some good trouble today. Thanks to all who came and marched and chanted. And thanks to Representative John Lewis!
17.07.2025 22:42 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Finally visited my Sunnyvale Sun today at Muwekma Park! Makes me happy to see it among the people walking and running their laps and children playing.
There’s another sun there, too!
If you look at the base, there’s a QR code that takes you to a map of all the Sunnyvale Suns!
A few quick sketches Monday morning with #drawingisfree_org
watercolor and pencil
Trying to keep it simple
Lucie
#watercolor #portrait
and as my teacher Jean Warren says, how they talk to each other
29.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Find the parts that work; fix the parts that don’t.
#abstract #nonrepresentationalart #watercolor #wip
Starting my Thursday doing a few #quickportraits with #pencils4tea Thanks Kirsty and all the models!
#danielsmithwatercolors #derwentpencils #cansonpaper #isabeybrush
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13.05.2025 05:45 — 👍 12826 🔁 5723 💬 543 📌 865Yahoo!!! Go, Annie!
21.06.2025 14:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy solstice!
Happy Juneteenth!
A couple of little direct watercolor sketches in memory of our friend Tom. We will miss you, and your plum jam, sir!
#directwatercolor #directwatercolor2025
Had a nice quiet visit to the Salon at the Triton yesterday with Allied Artists West. Here are just a few of my favorites. Plus Katherine Young’s solo exhibit of her ocean drawings in gold and graphite. Highly recommend both exhibits!
19.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Beautiful work, woman!
17.06.2025 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Six quick portraits in 25 minutes before my plein air group met. Thank you Chloe for a lovely way to warm up on Monday morning!#drawingisfree_org #quickportraits
16.06.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
