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  • Another Garden Year

    Another Garden Year

    My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. Claude Monet In 2024 I set out to make a watercolor bouquet of the flowers in my garden in the style of 18th century Pieter Casteels III. We know them as the ubiquitous engravings, the classic “Twelve Months of Flowers”. Each month I would sketch in watercolor the…

    MSRitzman

    March 15, 2025
    Projects, Sketching
    art, flowers, garden, Garden bouquet, gardening, Pieter Casteels, Twelve Months of Flowers, watercolor, watercolor garden
  • Whatcha going to make?

    Whatcha going to make?

    Now the adventure of making something with the fabrics I printed in my workshop excursion. I got right on it! My initial thoughts were that I would make a tote bag with the Seaside sketches print and a lightweight raincoat from the Jardin print. Here is what actually happened in my sewing salon… Now to…

    MSRitzman

    June 26, 2024
    Projects, Sketching, Travel & Tours
    cochenille-design-studio, lyon-fabric, sewing, tote-bags, www-cochenille-com
  • Farming

    Growing food is not something I would normally do but the opportunity presented itself in Spring.  I wanted to add a couple fruit trees to the property so planted an apple and a quince in the area I now call The Farm.  This is the same area where I discarded some pumpkin’s I had used…

    MSRitzman

    August 24, 2020
    Projects
  • Learning to ‘fool the eye’

    Learning ‘trompe l’oeil techniques from Kathleen  McKeehen Project progress…

    MSRitzman

    January 14, 2020
    Projects, Sketching, Workshop
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