Farm Sketches

Had the opportunity to spend Thanksgiving at the Farm with my family. The view of the Tetons from their place. My brother playing the upright base. The chickens we love. All of us get a lot of enjoyment out of these girls. From an old bird watching book. The railroad tracks “in-town”. My dad’s bluegrass [...]

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A date by myself

This summer my family went for nearly two weeks to see my husband’s family in Montana. I really couldn’t be gone that long with the classes I was taking and my thesis project so I stayed home. It was weird to be home alone with just the dog, and it was the first time my [...]

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Lavender Festival Watercolors

This summer I made an effort to pack my watercolor kit with me and do a little painting. All of these are approximately 4×6 on hot pressed Arches paper. Went to a lavender festival with my sweet girl. I packed an extra water color kit in case my girl wanted to paint.

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Experimenting with Patterns and new pens

Just got two new pens. Lately I’ve been playing with patterns from nature and making them very abstract, I can be such a realist sometimes that it helps to shake things up. First the new Sharpie pen. It’s waterproof and archival safe. And writes like a Sharpie. Love it! I was thinking of grass with [...]

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A Work in Progress

I just finished up my grueling research class and have a week before I start another class. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it’s December! In the meantime, went on a “team-building” golf date with my fellow teachers. I took lots of pictures and was mostly focused on the birds [...]

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A different kind of art journal

While trying to maintain my balance I am reminded constantly that I’m not a very coordinated person most of the time and I stumble and fall. One thing that has made me very happy is my “new” art journal. Originally, a 50 cent book that smelled funky. The title amused me, and I thought to [...]

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hand bound book

So what can I do with a watercolor experiment that didn’t quite turn out to be the masterpiece I thought it would? Rip the pages down into a smaller book. In my last post I shared my Susan Cornelis inspired watercolors. I had used my favorite Arches watercolor paper and I have a very hard [...]

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Wet into Wet Watercolors

Recently I was looking for some inspiration to get my creative juices flowing and found this youtube video by Susan Cornelis. It’s a lovely video to watch, and looking at how she creates these lovely pictures out of what starts out as random-looking splotches is truly amazing. So I mixed up some watercolor paints and [...]

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Winter Water Colors

While on break I managed to break out my old water color travel kit and use the new brushes my sweet husband gave me for Christmas. Back in my college days, before being employed full time, before babies, I used to carry this little kit with me everywhere. If you are looking to get into [...]

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Watercolor interpretations of a vacation

Last week our little family drove all over the great states of Idaho and Montana. I took over 500 pictures from our various adventures. Now I have to sort, edit, and do something with all of those–later. For now I wanted to share my watercolors from the week. I had my paint kit, my favorite [...]

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