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  • The Less You Know How to Paint, The Better

    I just finished reading Austin Kleon’s 10 Things Worth Sharing and these words made my spirit jump. “The less you know about how you do what you do, the better.”  I am teaching this summer. Today right before I read the above words, I thought about my week. I have been all in the preparation…

  • Spark Your Creativity: Finger Painting Tips!

    Let me start this post by saying that I am working on filling a journal with finger painted textures, words and flowers. I have a board filled with finger painted tutorials or flowers that I am confident I can finger paint. In this post, I will be sharing lessons I am learning as I am…

  • Finger Painting Flowers with Acrylic Paint and Watercolor

    I am working on a book project. In today’s post I want to share my summer flower and share my latest art assignment of teaching TK and Kinder students art. Oh, my goodness what a lesson I am learning! First up is my flower! Summer Zinnia Yes, you see two crumbled up sheets of watercolor…

  • Wandering Around in My Art Journal

    Do you have an art journal? A notebook or a fancy hard cover book filled with your drawings and paintings. I love starting a new project, loving the color I mixed, then using the leftover paint to add a pop of color to a painting on another page. In this post, I’ll share a few…

  • Making Art is Good for You

    In this post, I want to share my latest flower painting and talk about how art doesn’t have to be good for it to be good for you. We get so focused on thinking our art is bad that we don’t paint. Prescence, permission and play are good for the mind, the soul, the body…

  • Live like it’s summer!

    It is the last day of school. You clear out your desk, have a pizza party, sign a few year books, have year-end festivities but mostly when that bell rings, freedom awaits. Having summers off is your chance to play all day and do the things you love! I love what I do every day,…