self care
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Painting Flowers With A Q-Tip
…because there is a world full of ideas so why not Q-Tips! Would I rather have a set list to check off or build a list as I go? I like having a list to get me started but by… Continue reading
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How to Bloom in Art: Learn from Your Past Efforts
Do you trash your original work and then look at the digital copy years later thinking what happened to this piece. I like it! That is what I am writing about today. First let me revisit words I wrote three… Continue reading
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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
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Paint Big Flower Patterns
I have been seeing lots of big flower patterns. I bought a yellow skirt with a white flower pattern. Anthropologie has summer dresses with flower patterns. There have been random cold thunderstorm days but the birds are singing, the breeze… Continue reading
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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
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Technology Tips for Artist
Technology helps me show my work. Technology helps me find other artists who inspire me to keep creating. Technology helps me wander and then discover the answer. I love that I can be in class with students from all over… Continue reading
A Painted Garden 