How Wild is Your Garden?
Sketchbook Revival was new to me a month ago. I’m familiar with art journals and the limitless creative projects within them. But this was something a…
Holiday Greetings
A few weeks ago I decided to send a few watercolor postcard greetings, and was immediately immersed in research, design, and painting! I happened to have…
Delightfully Playful Fuchsias
This week, I’m again trying to complete the 2019 World Watercolor Month. The reason is not for competition, or for compliments, but rather to develop a…
Friends of a Feather
Ten years is a long time to be away from friends, but that’s how long it had been since grad school – when the Lunch Bunch…
Silent Witness at Bernifal
Where is Mr. Pémendrant, to guide the visitors of Bernifal? It’s early in the season, March in fact, and nearly all of the Dordogne region is…
Completed the Challenge
31 Days of Painting and Drawing from Life. Here’s a montage of what I accomplished this month…pretty close to the order in which I did them.
Nestling In
It has been quite an exciting week, wrapping up a cold wax and oil painting class, and then finally getting back to some unfinished work in…
Star Seeker (aka Galactic Girl)
It has been a very productive (and sometimes stressful) week, both in and out of the studio. More than once I considered dropping out of the…
A little coffee, a straw, and…
I never really believed that working interfered with my time for art. Well, I sort of knew it did, but deep down I thought I was…
Challenges, Making My Marks…
I’ve made myself a promise ~ not a goal, nor a resolution, but a promise ~ to paint or draw every day. And to help me…
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