Since I started this little art adventure, my motto has always been “Play Art & Spread Joy”. This originated from making handmade cards and giving them to friends. Many years later, I’m still playing art all the time, and now sell my cards on-line. BUT, one of my favorite things …
Let’s Create a Mother’s Day Card! MOM, a small word with such BIG meaning! Recently I drew the word MOM in big capital letters, and I’m finding it amazing how many ideas are flowing for what one can do with that base idea. I’ve been designing both with watercolors and …
Let’s Draw Butterflies! It’s Fall, and I’m drawing butterflies. For some reason, I am not often ‘on season’ with my creating, and I’ve decided to be fine with that. My flow is my flow and I just need to go with it. In this blog, I’d like to try and …
The Back Story Matters Sometimes a piece of art speaks to me after it’s done. Well really for me, it’s God speaking to me through my art. This has only happened a few times and this is one of them (click HERE for the other time). This piece is all …
It’s a rainy day and I’m up early with my cup of coffee in my favorite comfy spot. I like to scroll through my emails first thing to be sure I don’t miss anything important, and whilst doing so, I came across an email with the title, “Anti-design: The secrets …
Watercolor Supplies 101 A Guide to Choosing the Right Tools Are you interested in trying watercolors but feel overwhelmed by the supplies? Have you tried to buy watercolor paints and in your search you discovered they come various forms and at a wide range of price points? Did you walk …
What is Mixed Media art? Let’s start with a few questions: Do you love all kinds of different art supplies? When you are playing art, do you find it difficult to only use ONE medium, like only watercolors, or only acrylics? Do you love textures and layers in an art …
Art Journaling is essential to your art practice Why you ask? Let me tell you a few of the most important reasons: To keep track of your creative experiments To have a place to play without any expectations To develop your ‘style’ To have something to look at when you …
The Wonderful Words for This Wednesday are “American Heart Month” Did you know that February is American Heart Month? Well, if you didn’t, you do now! This suddenly has new importance to me. I’m going to start out this post with a few questions: How well do you know your …
Art as Therapy For a Grieving Heart I lost a friend yesterday. Her death was sudden and unexpected, leaving me shocked and confused. How could this happen? Today, I awoke to a world without my friend and it seemed so odd. As is my tendency, I got out my …