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Happy Friday! I mentioned earlier this week that I’d been working on a video all about watercolor palette set-up, and I’m excited to share it now! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpw3vpuNGIg?ecver=2] And last week’s video, in case you missed it, was an acrylic cloud painting tutorial for beginners. This is an easy painting using only a handful of…
Hi there! Hope you are having a great week so far. It has been warm and sunny this week here in Morro Bay, CA and I have been enjoying spending time outside! You might have seen on instagram lately that I picked up a lot of Winsor and Newton watercolor paint that I bought on eBay a…
I’m back with another update on my California Coastline art collection! In Part 1, I talked about some of the things that happen before any paint gets on the canvas. Here in Part 2, I’ll show some behind-the-scenes process for how I prepare my canvases. In general, I’ll prepare my canvases with a couple of rounds of…
I’m working on an art collection inspired by the Central Coast area of California in and around San Luis Obispo county. While I’ve been living in Morro Bay for a couple of months, I’ve been especially inspired by the ocean and the colors that form where the sky meets the water on the horizon. I…
Last weekend, I headed to Northfield, Minnesota to check out the Defeat of Jesse James Day Festival and to do another live painting! This is my fiancé’s hometown, so getting to talk about art in the area he grew up in was extra-cool. We made a time-lapse of the painting from start to finish –…