I’ve been unsatisfied with my sketchbook usage the last few years, I use to draw almost every single day, but life catches up, and my professional work leaves me with very little creative energy left to draw anything. When I’m in a beautiful place with new surroundings I don’t have an impulse to draw like I use to but I do end up taking a ton of photos to reference later. Usually while I’m watching TV with my dog laying beside me. When I do draw from life I’m drawing a pile of laundry or the...

When I go to art museums now I spend a ton of time looking at American landscape paintings, or French landscape paintings, or landscape paintings in general. But particularly there was a period of American landscape painting that the older I get the more I keep coming back to. And I like to imagine what it was like then, to sit on the banks of a river and watch the clouds pass over and over.

I’m trying to work on bringing that back and carve out time in my life to really focus and build routines to create....