Join me and an amazing lineup of 26 gifted and inspiring art-teaching cohorts for Make Create Express 2023-2024. learn more about Make Create Express HERE (watch the video and click the links to learn about Make Create Express, the FREE weekend retreat, or both!) It’s going to be a magical creative time together. We’re startingContinue reading “Make Create Express 2023”
Category Archives: Art Updates
Watercolor Basics: How to Neutralize Color with Three Colors – CMY color palette
In this lesson, we’ll learn how to get neutral and subtle color – starting with just THREE specific colors. Paint with nuance now!
Watercolor Basics: How to Mix Bright Color with Three Colors – CMY color palette
In this lesson, we’ll learn how to get bright and bold transparent color – starting with just THREE specific colors. What are they? Let’s take a look here:
New Work: Chipmunk Watercolor and Gouache
The loose and fast fungi sketches of October have led me to a lot of passion about the forest floor – a pull in another landscape direction from the vast and spatial. Here’s what’s new: A detailed and lovingly painted rendition of a Chipmunk in gouache and transparent watercolor. The colors are carefully selected toContinue reading “New Work: Chipmunk Watercolor and Gouache”
Inktober #2
My unofficial month of mushrooms marches on! I love these new(ish) gray microns SO much, but I grabbed the wrong one in the light gray for this piece, a thicker 05. The hatching isn’t making me happy – but SO WHAT? It’s a small sketch in a small moleskine for a daily drawing prompt. ShowingContinue reading “Inktober #2”
Congratulations and More
First off, I am honored to congratulate Toni K, the winner of the free spot in PYHAS – it was SO fun seeing all the different entries and I want to thank each and every one of you for stopping by the blog and taking the time to answer. I’ll be making some more funContinue reading “Congratulations and More”
Hello Wonderful Creatives!
I’m so excited to finally let the news out – that I’m going to be one of the instructors in the amazing year-long course called Paint Your Heart and Soul 2023. I’m especially thrilled to be a part of PYHaS2023, because I love to be part of this great team so much! With at leastContinue reading “Hello Wonderful Creatives!”
New Works Available – Preview
New works will be available this Sunday – I’m so happy to share this collection with you!Follow me on Facebook so you can request a tag and an invite to the event. More info about each work follows! “Morning Maps”18x24x.78 inchesAcrylic on Cradled Hardboard “Murmurations”8x10x.75 inchesAcrylic on Cradled Hardboard “Sliding Up”12x12x.75 inchesAcrylic on Cradled HardboardContinue reading “New Works Available – Preview”
For Real Though? (Favorite at the Met)
I’ve been going places in my memory. It’s all I’ve probably got for my forseeable, so let’s do some museums together! I’m going to post my favorites in a number of my favorite collections. I’m going to start with my home base of sorts, the Met in NYC. I can’t count the weekends I wentContinue reading “For Real Though? (Favorite at the Met)”
Just Added to The Etsy Shop – Christmas Cardinal Original and Limited Edition Mini-Print
So happy to share this as a print and painting – choose from a 5×7 limited edition MINI PRINT, 5×7 inches on cotton paper, printed in archival Epson Ultrachrome inks, or one lucky person can opt for the special original painting – a sweet whimsical version of a Northern cardinal. These sweet little birds areContinue reading “Just Added to The Etsy Shop – Christmas Cardinal Original and Limited Edition Mini-Print”