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Garden design has a vocabulary all it's own and even though many of these terms are quite common, we often confuse them. I've tried my best to define...
Once the holidays end in December, it seems that January and February can dwell on as we yearn for spring to arrive. To add a bright light to these sh...
I've been wanting to do a proper marker rendering tutorial for awhile, but haven't carved out the time, so thought I'd share a quick sketch I did for ...
This past week I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) annual conference in Orlando, Flor...
Stippling is an art technique that uses small dots to create a larger image. In this case, I'm using stippling to add extra character and spatial defi...
I'm a pen and ink artist to heart so love adding textures to the ground plane in my landscape plans. Yes, they take a little time, but add such charac...
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on my favorite summer blooming alliums; Allium 'summer beauty' and Allium 'millenium'. Now I'd like to share my late-su...
After posting my line weight graphic several of you asked about the types of pens I used, so I made a new graphic below that shows some of my favorite...
Proper line weights give your drawing depth and clarity. Few line weights will make your drawing feel flat, while a variety, used in the right way, w...
Polka dots are sweet and dainty, while being a great companion to other bold patterns. Yes, the polka dots in my garden are sweet, but they are also t...
Each year when I teach hand lettering in my landscape graphics class ultimately someone says "I can't do this. My printing is too messy." I truly bel...
While visiting Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa, I had the pleasure of stumbling across one of their annual displays, the black border. It is a lovely, da...
When you walk through a fabulous garden, do you ever wonder why you're so intrigued with it? Maybe its because that garden was successfully organized ...
Every year this question ultimately comes up in my landscape design studio: "How large should I make a patio for a certain number of people?" I found ...
