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  • Embrace Your Inner Artist with Big Dahlia Paintings

    Are you lost with all the trends, social media accounts with millions of followers, SEO, and AI? All you want to do is paint your flowers. Build your audience with the way you paint. In this post, I will be sharing an experience that made me realize yet again I am an artist. Enough with…

  • Georgia O’Keeffe Artist Advice

    Have you ever had nothing to do but wander in a garden. Do you notice all of the colors and the breeze or the warmth of the sun hugging you? Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings always remind me to take time and just be. This week I was honored to guide a 2nd-grade class in painting…

  • Creative Freedom: Lessons from ‘Just Ask!’

    Have you read Just Ask! by Sonia Sotomayor? This book is filled with colorful flowers. There is a page with an Illustration of a hill filled with beautiful flowers. It is a place that I wish I could roam and wander. On each page, there is a child who introduces the next. Each child tells…

  • I Admire How Children Create Art

    Children always spark my imagination, and make me want to make more art. In this post, I will share the top three projects that I got to work on with students. I’ll include a few quotes about children painting and creating. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist, once…

  • Blue Flowers Sprinkled With Faith

    I have doodled blue flowers before, and these doodles are often part of my best work. In this post, I will share my doodles and the blue flowers I painted last night. If you are doubting your work, then this post will help you go back to the doodles you did for the fun of…

  • Wild Rose Ink and Making Art

    My goodness, it has been a while since I painted these. They are beautiful! I appreciate them more than when I painted them. Inspiration I love wandering around in an Anthropologie store. The kitchen & dining items, colors, and patterns are a delight. I painted a flower arrangement that would look beautiful in my home.…