Cottage Garden Alphabet
watercolor in progress Practicing with happy art is making me happy, and snow is making me think about spring! That’s where these botanically-designed capitals came from this week. Today’s piece is a sketchbook exercise that
Friendly Flowers
finished illustration, watercolor and digital I got a Silhouette Cameo cutter a few weeks ago to replace my broken old Cricut machine, and ever since then, I’ve been excitedly coming up with ideas for fun
Holiday Greenery
original gouache illustrations Over the last very busy holiday weeks, I took a bit of a break posting my sketchbook work here, but today I’m back with a new design just in time for the
Summer Glads
gouache painting This week, I’ve been working on both Summer AND Fall designs! I spotted the first actual red leaf outside, so now it’s time to break out my brightest orange paint. I’m not quite
Bathers
watercolor and gouache sketch The end of the summer, around the time when kids normally return to school for classes, has always felt particularly nostalgic to me. Maybe it’s because my birthday sometimes landed right,
Wildlife, Cabana Colors
pheasant and landscape sketches, gouache Last week, I spent a couple of hours working with the same palette of warm, summery colors with gouache in my sketchbook. These paintings were quick and dirty, with little
Tinned Flowers
Mixed Media, 2023 Today’s piece came together over several days last week, working with gouache over watercolor. I wanted to paint some colorful, expressive summer flowers, and contrast them against something a little more structured
Daruma, Nasturtiums
oil paint, 12″ x 12″ Today’s painting isn’t new, it’s quite a few years old! Although I studied with oils, this is the last oil painting I finished, and it was quite a while ago,
Green Peas
Drawing over brush tests and color swatches is one of my favorite ways to work in my sketchbook. There’s something fun about these “garbage” pages that I’ve always kind of hated throwing away – they
Bridesmaid’s Breath
I’m still loving my new-ish gouache palette. Today I have another limited-color painting from my little book of color palettes. It’s slowly filling up with little painting studies, and it’s at the point where it’s