What if you could take home more than photos from your time in the Poconos? In this relaxed, beginner-friendly creative workshop, you’ll learn how to capture your travel experience through visual journaling — combining simple drawing, expressive mark-making, and reflective prompts in a way that feels playful and accessible. No prior art experience is needed. If you can hold a pen, you can do this. Hosted by a working artist and daily open-studio creator, this experience is designed to help...

Most mornings, before the emails start and the workday pulls in its claims, I go live. The Early Morning Open Studio isn’t a performance. It’s not polished. It’s not optimized. It’s simply a quiet hour of showing up. Coffee nearby. Blank canvas. Sketchbook open. Multicolored ballpoint pens or whatever materials are within reach. Sometimes I’m studying a master. Sometimes I’m working through a problem. Sometimes I’m just trying to see more clearly. The point isn’t to create a masterpiece...

“A Treatise on Painting” Leonardo da Vinci Translated from the original Italian by John Francis Rigaud Illustrated with Twenty-three Copper-plates, and other figures This work is in the Public Domain. See link below to full free pdf copy. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci   (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Rennaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his...