self care
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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… Continue reading
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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
A Painted Garden 