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August Poll

  • coastal- beach, boat, specific area, buoys , lobster traps etc 88
  • still life, 48
  • animals- what type 28
  • landscape- what region 47
  • ink and wash- what subjects 78
  • technique - what specific technique do you want to learn 20
  • urban sketching- what city, state, country 45
  • 2025-08-06
  • 354 votes
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Pat Sparrow

I would like to learn how to arrange a still life. Sizes, shapes, colors, placement. What makes a pleasing painting.

Marydee

Animals. Farm animals mostly

Virginia Poggi

Anything autumn:pumpkins, leaves, sunflowers…

Martie

On the urban sketching what about New York City or New Orleans? Or for a small town, how about something quaint like Woodstock, VT or Fredericksburg, Tx?

Grace Horton

Still life because I desperately need to get better

Hilary Smith

African animals! I have lots of photo references that I’m happy to share

Jean

I would love to see birds with details for eyes and feathers. I also love your cute animal paintings. The animals have some human qualities that are whimsical.

Joe Coley

Ink and Wash. Buildings in colorful landscapes

lise lemieux

Anything coastal for ink & wash

Claudette Cardey

Negative painting with multiple colors …how not to get muddy and overworked Pile of autumn leaves Seashells Pebbles

Karen Durkin

Nibble Lighthoue York Beach, Maine

Elizabeth Baxt

I would like to learn more about color mixing

Anita Yedema

Landscapes, France, Italy, wine regions

Brenda

Love the coastal theme. Sailing would be awesome. Also lobster stuff and buoys

Eva June

Urban sketching. Amsterdam

Cat

Landscapes of Italy, France, vineyards

Sarah Rawson

How do you decide which brush to use, e.g., Princeton Aqua Elite, Grumbacher, Princeton Neptune, Princeton round, Princeton long round? For type of animals: African animals; Also, clouds, sky, background washes.

Denise Putnam

still life-shadows & light, seasonal objects

Robin Russell

I love your ink and wash that are loose. Everyday subjects—kitchen, gardens, everyday life

Allison Hawkins

Festivals with Tents and artwork with people. Could be anywhere!

Anne Prosser

Urban sketching - Paris or Edinburg, Scotland

Jane Sibley

Landscape-Taos and Santa Fe area, please.

Brenda

I love the look of ink and wash. Landscape with building, trees would be nice!

Nancy Wood

I'm thinking ink and wash - an urban scene with wet streets/puddles maybe? Even a loose person with an umbrella.

Nora Sandoval

Techniques. Color blending and layering.

Princess

garden scenes

KatWoman

Landscapes-Napa Valley.

Michael Dickey

Southwest, deserts, mountains, cactus!

Becky

Ink and wash. Similar to urban sketching. I want to improve on loose washes.

Kathy

Ink and was buildings

Jane Eaton

Sun rays through trees.

Linda McCrackin

Monterey, California - Lone Cypress Tree

Susanne Bergesen

Landscape - California Sierra Nevada Mtns, Lake Tahoe (especially the lake bottom & clear water & reflections), redwood trees with light shafts streaming through

Lois

Evening sky in the mountains, sunsets, semi abstracts

Lois

loose florals

Mary

Landscape- desert, canyons

Leigh

Ink and wash - any houses/buildings /architecture. Sketchy

Talitha Baxter

I chose urban sketching. I don't have a particular city, but maybe like a fountain with people and buildings/trees in back.

Talitha Baxter

Or even an ink and wash with a fountain and buildings

Christie Cook

I’d love a video on layering technique. How not to get lines or overwork when adding layers

Christie Cook

Love horses - especially in rural settings

Diana

Would love to paint animals better, particularly cats. 😽 But down for learning any new thing!

Patti

Landscapes of Irish/Scottish countryside, cottages, bluffs

Diana

Great idea!

Julie

Still life … interior rooms with layers of washes. Think Hall of Mirrors or ornate castle living room

Julie

Still life with layers of washes, like rooms in ornate Paris mansion…

Mary Porter

I would like to do watercolor alpacas. We have a lavender farm with alpacas and I am writing and illustrating a children’s book series about our farm. I have so appreciated learning my lavender painting techniques from you!

Glenna Shiaman

Urban sketching - a city - either a scene with many buildings or a market or bridge.

Kathy

Scotland sunrise/sunset near castle/ruins

Connie Ellison

Ink and wash of coastal of boats, buoys, etc.

VivLet

Ink and wash of iconic city skylines or buildings

Janet

Venice, Italy or NYC

Dawn Coelin

Love this idea! Ink and wash!

Dawn Coelin

Ink and wash of Nubble Lighthouse in York, ME

Liz

Stormy cloudy skies

Toni Wilkes

California coastal area. Specifically, the northwest seascapes: Mendocino, Humboldt County, Trinidad is gorgeous. No southern beaches.

Carol Harris

Cityscapes from high level - thinking view of Paris from top of montmartre and sacré-cœur

Jean Olsen

Explain characteristics of different brushes and why chosen for a specific use. For example we know you love the point on a new Aqua Elite but why choose it over Velvettouch or Neptune. Loved seeing your review of the Grainer. Much of the information about brushes could be discussed during tutorials. When do you choose a softer brush vs. a stiffer brush?

Lynn

I love architecture in Paris, Italy, Spain

Jean Olsen

Hi Dawn. I’ve done an ink and wash of Nubble Light based on my own photo!!

Laura Roper

i can not get the hang of shadows, esp if a shadow is covering different colors (eg. sand and grass or dark wood and a light rug).

Arlene Coco

Food either still life or ink and wash

Sharon

A Fountain, please.

Alex Doolittle

River scenes from WA, OR, or CO (really diff color palettes)

Laura

I like woodland animals, fox, deer and the like.

Johnnie

Virginia and Alabama streams, mountains, farms

Johnnie

Small towns for sketching

Lise

Ink and Wash with Urban Sketching.. Charleston... would be great..

Daria

Woodlands in northeast U.S.

Amy Johnson

A peaceful lake with a canoe with someone fishing off the canoe.

Anita Arnefors

Abstract painting and how to create light.

marian williams

Midwest prairie horizon with barn and hay bails scattered through-out the fields.

Jann Gumbiner

Flowers, flowers, flowers. Your flowers are wonderful. Keep them coming. Thanks so much.

Jann Gumbiner

I am from the west so western plants and landscapes appeal to me: California missions, ocean scenery, etc. i am very tired of everything being about the East coast. Any suggestions?

YogaRose

Fishing fleet on the water

Melissa

Seascapes, waves, clouds, stormy skies, sunsets, sunrise, etc.

Kimberly Gilley

ink n wash - Any nature theme and background

Jill Mayo

Animals - Cats, birds, more sheep, dogs, etc

Mark Hines

urban sketching, Paris France Can be ink and wash!!

Rose Keesing

Ink and wash street or country scenes in Europe

Maria Hay

How to paint backgrounds.

Judy

Abstract

Amy Keane

Rainy street scene

waterart

Ink ans wash people

Deidi

City - an old Italian or French walled city

Fran

Urban Sketching of Florence Italy, or the side streets of Rome.

Ellen

I'd love some practice in still life - fruit, perhaps. Partly to work on shadows.

Sue Kroskey

Ink and wash sea life (crabs, fish, sharks, etc)

Sue L

Ink and wash fruits and vegetables

Virginia Martinez

Ink and wash towns, communities, European cities, churches, street scenes

Lauren H Hudson

Coastal beach, trees, row boats umbrellas and chairs

Peggy Schneberger

ink and wash churches , landscape-mountains, rocky cliffs

Annie

Ink and wash, anything beach related including seascape

Laura Armour

Norway checkout Elusive Moose on X if you get a chance, so many beautiful different landscapes that I sigh over and think I’d like to paint that.

Megara Sheffer

Painting children at the beach and/or children in the rain, umbrellas, rainboots, and/or children playing with fall leaves, pumpkins.

Leeann Moore

Ink and wash fruit, still life, landscape, or garden basket of vegetables.

Candy Lynn

Rocky Mountains landscapes

Bec Fowler

I chose urban sketching from the list - I was hoping one day for something kinda suburban. Houses, backyards, local gardens, playgrounds; those kinds of things. 🙏

Donna Hampton

Urban sketching of Alberobello Italy and its trulio buildings!

Nona Podschlne

Ink and wash street scenes, buildings etc.

Beada

Urban sketching-I need practice!

Martie

Sometimes you don’t arrange them, they just happen!😄 I came across a photo of a table setting at a special place we dined in France. My hat was laying in the background ! Suddenly I realized that was a still life! Started working on it…!

Deborah Eichel

I would love to see a working lobster boat harbor with lobster boats, nets, lobsters, buoys in the water, fishermen (and women). A background of a rocky coastline with pine trees would be wonderful. Thank you. Oh, and ink and wash please!

Carol Flarkin

Landscapes: Farmland, old farm buildings (barns, farmhouses)

Lisa Hunter

Landscapes of Italy, Ireland

Debrah Binard

Beach, surf, fishing boats, with nice clouds

Laura Jane

Animals ink and wash

Denise McQuillan

Still life for autumn - autumn colored flowers, pumpkins with a flower arrangement etc

Diana Marshall

I live in Hawaii and I like to paint tropical beachy themes.

Pat

Beachy, technics for water, waves, clouds

Rose Bosch

Lobster themed would be nice!

Vicki

Brush techniques and ways to practice. The difference in soft vs stiffer brushes. Reasons for using each.

Anonymous

Traditional chinese junks

Tammy

would love country landscape with cows and barns

Katerina

Seascape Cinqueterre Italy

MariaDL

Urban sketching, Charleston SC

Jann Merrill

Southwest desert scenes and ink and wash

Rhonda

I would like to learn more about the loose technique for both rural landscapes as well as florals. No matter how many time I attempt a loose painting it always turns into a mess. I also have issues with always seeming to use too much pigment. Still pushing forward. 😊

Alice Moore

I would like to paint a lighthouse that captures the actual light blinking on, as you would see it at dusk or night.

Laura Jane

Animals both realistic and line and wash with fun colors

Sabrina

Landscapes in ink and wash please!

Bronwyn Clare

land scape with hills, mountains, streams, rivers, lakes - anything with nature! I also love Japanese scenery

PaulaA

Landscapes- tropics, swamps

Tina

Lighthouse, lobster and boat and packing houses.

Theresa Fargo

I'm interested in trying a landscape or ink and wash of an Alaskan Spring-Summer! Maybe wild flowers in meadow with the Purdue Bay or the Kachamac Bay and Mountains-Glacer's in background .... 🤔

Mary Bauer

Wine glasses or glass bottles that are clear and reflect light

papinok

landscape midwest or national parks