It is entirely possible that I jumped the gun looking for Autumn in August, but when you live in the land of perpetual summer you tend to look for anything that suggests the temperatures (or humidity) are going to drop sometime before January! The colorful specimen above was waiting patiently on our driveway as I walked to the mailbox back in August. Yes,...
Octobers always seem so busy and often filled with great plans that interfere with all the wonderful things we'd like to do! If that statement describes you and why you are not able to join me for a week-long workshop on Jekyll Island this October, worry not! Announcing "An Imaginary Trip To Jekyll Island Online Class!" Registration is now open! Imagine wading in...
Letting Go To Get Connected... I am so, so excited to invite you to a creative workshop and retreat next fall in the Southwest of France!This workshop has been years in the making but could not be more timely! I have to admit to galloping butterflies as I sent the announcement out today—this is one of those vulnerable moments for me as I am quite passionate and strongly believe (now...
Frantic or panicked (it was hard to tell which) cheeping brought me to the windows overlooking our backyard. A quick scanned revealed no small bodies on the ground near the windows. A small quiver of movement drew my eyes to the fence where this wobbly puffball was hanging on for dear life! My concerns of the baby having fallen from the nest quickly...
Every once in a while a page goes so completely wrong, as in completely, utterly and totally off the rails, that it might have never ever been on the rails to begin with! That's what happened with the page above. I used the stamp shown below with a very light colored stamping ink. The ink was pigmented and for some reason, the detail...
"Shards of A Splintered Heart" - Painted with watercolor, memories and tears While painting this quilt pattern, a small splatter of salty water hit the page. A tear. As I often get "lost" in the process of creating and go off in my mind to other worlds within this one, it wasn't really a surprise. It's happened before. Creating seems to lower my...
I call the image above Quilted Madness. There are 100 little squares in that piece and every single one of them is different from the others. Oh, and the overall size of the art is 4.5 inches by 4.5 inches! Crazy? Yes, but it served its purpose. I detest sitting around without something to do and if you've spent much time in doctor's...
Do you have a voice that whispers to you sometimes? "Do this", "don't do that", "go ahead and give this new thing a whirl" are often the spoken words I hear in my mind, but never so clearly as I heard them a few weeks ago. It's been ridiculously hot in Florida lately and I had just returned from my father's doctor appointment....
5-Day Sketching Workshop Work on location with Laure at Jekyll Island, see live demos on sketching birds, dolphins, beach treasures, native flora, fauna, the inescapable beach kitsch and more! You’ll receive a full color handout with step-by-step instructions on many of these subjects PLUS one-on-one feedback and help on your work. The workshop will start each day at 9:30 a.m. and finish up...
Wishing all of America a safe and happy celebration! Wishing all of America a safe and happy celebration! ...
I stumbled across this Free illustration course over on Facebook. The course is offered by edx.org and features two experts from the University of Newcastle in Australia. It looks like it will be both fun and beneficial to anyone seeking to improve observation and or rendering skills! The images show a host of different subjects as well as mediums (with different approaches). I'm...
I've always heard about the gorgeous light in Paris, but I never imagined that all of France (well, the parts I visited anyway) would have that same light! At times, it seemed pearlescent or iridescent...and so very clear. It was a delight to walk around medieval towns and villages to sketch and paint (and take photos) because of that light. But I would...
Registration is now open for Painted Travels: LVC Workshop with EARLY BIRD PRICING still in effect until Thursday, February 28, 2019! Come and join me for a truly magical 10-day art journaling workshop in Frayssinet, France, September 19 - 29, 2019! We’ll be staying at Le Vieux Couvent, a refurbished 17th-century convent-turned-art retreat. Located in the small village of Frayssinet, it is centrally...
The Paris Workshop in October was sooooooooo much fun and we just barely managed to scrape the "tip of the tower" as the city was jam-packed with places to see and visit and absorb and feel and taste and, and, and... So I'm going back via an Imaginary Trip! This time around I'll be using my own photographs and I'll be showing you...
A painting of my grandmother and me from Easter along with a few of our creations I wrote this article back in 2014 and submitted it to a few magazines, but it never found a home. When I was recently looking through some old files for some family photos, I happen to run across it and thought I'd share it here on the...
