Clean-Up Day in the Studio

Creativity means making a mess… and then cleaning it up. I don’t know when or where I first heard those…

When Shadows Fall

I am sitting here listening to Still Waters by David and Steve Gordon. I find their music very soothing, very…

Earlier this month I shared a “Fletcher Doodle” — a crazy mish-mash of lines and circles going this way and…

I’ve been looking forward to Inktober 2020 ever since I completed my last Inktober 2019 drawing. For weeks now I’ve…

I love to cook. I love planning our menus. I love nutrition. I guess I could say I simply have…

When I first tried painting a scene of cherry trees in bloom, it didn’t go well. You saw that ugly…

Back in 1963, if you turned on the radio you might hear this silly song: It went all the way…

I’m having an ugly day in the art studio. I wasn’t planning to make bad art, today, but sometimes it…

On Monday evening I attended one of the first art club meetings since the start of the pandemic. The meeting…

I love fairies — the good kind of fairies, the kind who live in the grasses and visit our gardens…

Autumn officially begins for us tomorrow, on September 22. My husband and I have been having our own “fall celebration”…

Sit on it? Sit on what? Hang on, folks. It’s a long story. Recently I ordered a crafty little polymer…

I began this blog in 2016 as an aspiring artist hoping I might eventually learn to draw, to paint, and…

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve done anything with pastels, so when I headed to YouTube on Wednesday…

Enjoying what we do is essential if we hope to improve any particular skill, and art is certainly no exception.…

A few days ago I shared a few of my “misty morning” watercolor paintings. They reflected, I hope, peaceful scenes…

Once in a while I come across something so interesting that I’m compelled to write about it, even if it’s…

Learning new techniques is one of the most enjoyable aspects of art for me. It’s always fun, of course, to…

I love misty mornings when colors are soft and hazy. In my watercolor studies, that’s the effect I’ve been learning…

When I first began teaching myself to draw — back in 2015 — I had absolutely no confidence in my…