The first day of the rest of this blog. The fear of the blank page has followed me from my art table to here. In order to break it, I speed sketched and painted a tag; it’s sole purpose to bring me back to blogging. Baby Steps. Thank you to […]
30 Paintings in 30 Days – Day 1 Once again, I’m taking part in Leslie Saeta’s Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge. It begins today and I’m happy to share my first painting with you. This is an 8 x 10 acrylic over collage piece, done on 140 lb cold press paper. Here is a […]
Fun with Florals I’ve been having lots of fun with Tamara Laporte’s and Wyanne Thompson’s latest lessons in Life Book 2016. I didn’t have all of the materials that they used, so I used what I had and did my own interpretations of the lessons. Lots of splatters, splotches and squiggly […]
A photo of my morning sketch. I love working with ink and watercolor.
Sometimes my word bowl fails me and gives me such random unrelated words, that I cheat and put them back and keep drawing from it until I get something I like. That happened today. The first words I picked, “there she was” sounded promising, but then… “fetch the cows”. Seriously?! How did those words […]
My goal in my art has always been more than creating a pretty face or flower. I’ve wanted to tell a story. This painting fulfilled that goal for me. This painting is a 9 x 12 mixed media piece, and was done using techniques learned in this week’s Life Book 2016 lesson, with […]
I know that I am not the only artist who looks for inspiration. On my table is a bowl filled with words and phrases cut from magazines and print-outs of poems, quotes and stories that I’ve found while browsing around the web. When I’m looking for inspiration, I pull a few words from the […]
This week’s Life Book 2016 lesson with Jane Davenport was wonderful. I adored it. (adore.. I love that word!) I painted along while I watched and listened, at times getting a little ahead of the lesson. I enjoyed the unpredictability, lightness and freedom of painting solely with watercolor, after all the mixed media I’ve been doing. […]
Out here, where I live, I don’t have to go much further than outside my own door to find beautiful wildflower meadows. So it doesn’t surprise me that…. I’ve gone wild for wildflowers! Seriously. Once I started painting these I couldn’t stop. I blame it all on the Facebook mail art group that I […]
A few weeks ago, I shared this sneak peek of a painting I did for the Enchanted Visions theme, The Gateway, with my Facebook followers. I couldn’t share the whole painting because Enchanted Visions hadn’t published it yet on their site. I’m happy to say that they have published it and now I can share with […]
What a busy week! How was your’s? I’m hoping it was wonderful and that you’re all set to have a fabulous and relaxing weekend. In between all the busy stuff that life throws at us, I did some doodles and a couple of quick little postcard size paintings. The doodles were done on two separate […]
Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a wonder filled holiday season and that 2016 will bring you good health, good will and much happiness. A new year. For many it symbolizes a fresh start. Everywhere you look people are sharing their resolutions for 2016, or, more popular in the art community, their […]