Barbara Aten

Anne Bonine

Jan Brown

Barbara Epplett

Hugh Larkin

Sandy Larkin

Joby Patterson

Eshkie Zachai

Nancy Burdick

Jane Harrison

We are a group of artists who came together on a 2006 sketchbook tour of the hillside towns in Umbria, Italy.  Ken O’Connell, art professor emeritus at the University of Oregon, initiated the tour in 2006, and 2008 (when three newcomers joined us).

We just put some of our sketches into two books - go to  Blurb.Com, and search for Top Drawers on Tour: Italy, and then search for our newest one Top Drawers on Tour: France. It’s available at printing/shipping cost.

Our backgrounds and experiences differ, but we enjoyed sketching together in Italy so much that we continued to meet weekly after we returned home to Eugene.  We sketch together, go to art events together, take classes and workshops together, share techniques and tools, travel together, and generally cheer each other on in our artistic explorations.

During the Spring of 2010, two more artists came with us in a sketching trip to Provence.   We enjoyed them so much we asked them to join us as Top Drawer members, too.  So our group is growing in numbers and talents.

Each artist has his/her own page - just click the picture above the desired person’s name, or the name in the above menu to find out more about each of us, and to sample some of our work.

To contact us as a group, click the Top Drawers icon in the lower right hand corner of this page.  To contact us individually, see the lower right hand corner of our personal pages for our email addresses.  We welcome questions and comments.

To see what we’ve been up to lately, check out our our Event Blog.

To see what we have coming up, check our our Calendar.

Erik Johnson

Bill Sperling