A Painted Garden

abstract flowers

  • Lemons and Pink Flowers

    Lemonade on a hot summer day will cool you off. Walking through a garden filled with big pink roses cools me off too. In this painting session I mixed lovely shades of yellow, got out my flat brush and painted… Continue reading

  • Art Is a Form of Self-Care

    Art can always guide us and teach us how to live deeper lives. I’ll be sharing a poem on all of the lessons I have been learning and end with the story behind my painting. Trying to be the best… Continue reading

  • How Do You Mix Pink?

    You simply take any shade of red and mix it with Titanium White. Add a dot of yellow or complimentary color and now you’re talking! In this post, I’ll share how I mixed pink with acrylic paint. Then I’ll share… Continue reading

  • New Name for my website!

    I like Creatively Hue but want a name that reflects the flowers I paint. The words below are from my About page. Add Anthropologie’s Our People, mix in Georgia O’Keeffe’s, “I can’t sing so I paint”, and sprinkle the words… Continue reading

  • Process is king

    I have been working on this flower painting for days. It was too orange. Then it was too red. I wanted pink. I wanted to stamp the center with the bottom of a dime-sized circle brush handle. I don’t have… Continue reading

  • How to build confidence in your art

    What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Every time I get to teach children art, I am reminded that confidence and great ideas are always here. There is no need to build it. My students always pick up… Continue reading