Tales of Fire and Ice. Hi Reader: It's easy to fill a sketchbook when I'm on a trip to some exotic land. But there are thrills and drama in ordinary life, too, and this sketchbook has a few. It begins with a fire in my sketchbook! In my endless haste, I began drying watercolors in our microwave oven. Generally, this worked pretty well, and in a few seconds, the water evaporated, and the page was dry. However, I had begun playing around with gold leaf (I showed that in abundance in the...