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Painting Ideas

Colorful Spring! Spring makes me think of colorful flowers, bright blue skies and birds singing in the yard. What a wonderful time to do some watercolor painting! I have been busy writing magazine articles to inspire you to fill your world with color! Grab your watercolor supplies and join me as I walk you through some fun painting ideas. Watch for my upcoming articles in these magazines:

 Searching for Shapes, April 2014 Issue of  Art Journaling by Somerset Studio

A Day in the Life of – a Photo Story, Summer 2014 Issue of Studios Magazine by Interweave Press


Water-Soluble Pens in Journaling, Summer 2014 issue of Pages Magazine by Interweave Press
Black-and-White Journal Pages, Summer 2014 Issue of Pages Magazine by Interweave Press
The Colorful World of Flora and Fauna, July/August 2014 Issue of Cloth-Paper-Scissors Magazine by Interweave Press
Welcome to my Studio!

Welcome to my Studio!

My art studio is featured in the new issue of the Cloth-Paper-Scissors Studios Summer edition magazine.  The editor, Linda Blinn is celebration the arrival of summer with this issue and asked me to write an article about my studio in Bend and how I travel with my journals and paints to  Mt. Desert Island, Maine with my traveling studio.  Here is a peek at the article:

The Dog Ate my Homework!

The Dog Ate my Homework!

I have been busy writing an article for ClothPaper Scissors STUDIOS Magazine about my studio. It is an interesting concept to peek inside the artist’s life and see where they create.  It made me reaffirm how lucky I am to have such a beautiful, private space to call my own.  I thought the photos for the article would be easy and writing the article would be the hard part.  Well it turns out that the article was fun to write and the photos have been a nightmare!  I cleaned and reorganized and now my studio has never looked better!  The awful thing was – you have heard “my dog ate my homework”, well my little Olive stole my camera card.  Not just my camera card but also my video card as well as I have been making an online video for Artful Gathering. 
I had to be a detective to try to recoup my cards and think like a dog.  I set a decoy piece of plastic next to my computer yesterday and watched from the other room.  Sure enough she grabbed and hightailed (literally) out the doggie door.  I followed her outside and around the house and low and behold there was the video card lying in the grass.  Unfortunately I still have not found the camera card.  We have about an acre for the dogs to roam.  And darn it there were some pretty good photos on that card!