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Week 2 Farmhouse Painting

As I mentioned last week, I plan to use a photo I did of a farmhouse/shack in Sedona as a learning piece each week. After I go through the exercises in the class, I’m going to see how my work has changed by going back to this reference photo I took. I’ve done that for [...]

Lucky Lady and Some Art

I’m so blown away by the One World One Heart project. We had over 200 blogs participating. I signed up for several of the drawings, getting to know some other bloggers. I’ve been honored to win several goodies. I will post them here when I get them, but I wanted to publicly thank the bloggers [...]

More drawing and watercolor pencils

I have spent a few hours each day this week doing at least a little bit of work with my watercolor pencils. I’m enjoying the class with Kate. She’s a very giving teacher and even across the miles, I feel supported and that I am learning. We’re four days into the class and my classmates [...]

Watercolor Pencil Day

Today I started working on the first drawing with my watercolor pencils. I’ve never attempted to draw from some of my hundreds of photos from our travels, but I figured this was a great time to do that. I took a photo of an ostrich about 3 years ago at the San Diego Zoo. Until [...]

Creative Monday

It was so good to get back into the studio yesterday. A certain calm comes over me when I walk into the studio – even if it’s a mess! It’s really a haven for me. Yesterday, after I wrote about my preparations for today’s Watercolor Pencil Magic class, I pulled out the sewing machine and [...]

Back in the studio

I’m pleased to say that I’m safely back in the studio after all the balance issues I had. It appears that last week’s solumedrol treatments have finally done their magic! I spent much of this morning getting my things ready for the Watercolor Pencil Workshop with Cathy Johnson. Class starts tomorrow, and I couldn’t be [...]

Thanks and Updates – Finding Creativity

I am so amazed by the outpouring of support from my last post. Thank you all so much for your emails, comments, prayers, warm thoughts – well, and just for being there. I’m calm now and I am starting to regain some energy. Part of this energy resurgence is from a new treatment that we [...]

More painting and Support A Place to Bark

I am still painting! The painting to the left is far from finished, but it’s moving along and I thought I’d share it. It feels good to be creative and to paint. I’ve got one more primed and ready, and a third drawn out. I’m on a roll and going with it. Tomorrow is my [...]

New Year

It’s a new year. I’m hopeful that this year will be even more creative than last. But until yesterday, I was frozen. It’s not a normal thing for me. But there was a lot going on in my life and I just wasn’t able to start working on anything. I’ve done some art journaling and [...]

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