Tag Musings

2025 and…Substacking?

Stephanie Fowler portrait with art supplies in the autumn

And here I thought blogging was dead. It’s been tickling the back of my awareness for some time, this wanting to return to writing. Design by Streetlight was born as a blog in 2012 with the real mission being to…

And then it got Pinteresting

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] My favorite painting produced so far this year – started in our beloved townhouse and finished during the first few weeks of living in our new…

Welcome 2018

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Kootenay Trees Sketched by the fire after a hike around my husband’s old stomping grounds growing up. I understand now why people paint this sort of…

first rooftop sketch – and the struggle of calling myself an Urban Sketcher

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] I’ve seen images such as this all over Pinterest and Instagram and was on the lookout for rooftops to try.  I was initially put off of this one…

From the Brazilian Archives

Good morning!  Happy Saturday! Not sure if you want to call them archives, I did these sketches back in February after we got back from the trip.  They were completed around Valentine’s Day as I recall.  Frank and I had…

Trusting the Process

So I can happily say some of those New Years Resolutions remain on track.  Actually I read a great blog post recently about not calling them Resolutions, because then it feels like way too big a deal when you fail.…

the Travel Kit: my review

Ooooh hi. I just thought it would be fun now that I’m home to do a quick review of what worked for me in my travel kit and what did not.  To recap, let’s visit this post. I had a…

Travel Sketches from Brazil

Hello and happy Saturday!  It is our first normal weekend back home from Brazil.  I think we might have just the teensiest bit of jetlag still as we have both been out of bed since 7AM – something I love…

My Travel Kit

  Okay, so by now I’ve been travelling through Brazil for almost two weeks.  How insightful of me for the first time in almost four years to schedule a bunch of posts for January!  Excuse me while I pat myself…