I've been busy doing color charts, so when it came time to clean my brush, I used the paint on a watercolor page.   After the paint...

Yesterday I got a new Schmincke watercolor set from http://www.wetpaintart.com   This set normally sells for $208.06 and is now on sa...

  I've never heard of a Brown Kiwi bird before, so I had to do a google search to see what color these birds are.  And they are actua...

  I've been working in my sketchbook everyday.  Each day it's something new.  Right now I'm in the section of my journal that ...

Today I worked in my sketchbookery journal on handmade 300lb watercolor paper.  The paper is so wonderful to paint on.  The paper absorbs t...

I pulled some oranges from my yard and decided to paint them on toned paper.  I used my Prang student grade watercolors and I was rather su...

  As week 4 of Sketchbookery class comes to an end, I realized that my pages don't have to be perfect; that I did my best at that mom...

  I keep on sketching and painting in my sketchbook that I made for my Sketchbookery class.  This is a page from that journal.   Ever...

  Another page in my sketch book (Sketchbookery class). I'm having fun just sketching and painting and not worrying about the out come...

This is the 3rd week of class of Sketchbookery with Mary Ann Moss.  I'm totally loving the class along with all the great videos and id...

  I really love roaming around Google Maps of Greece.  In doing so, I've discovered the really blue ocean water.     With this pa...

On Virtual Paint Out for July, Greece is the country to visit.  So I went on Google maps and scouted out a location I wanted to paint.  Thi...

After two days of watching videos, making my sketchbook for class and doing my first journal page...I'm tired, but happy with what I...

  I was going through some of my photo's from Monet's garden that I took last year and decided to use one as a reference for a pa...

I started a new class with Mary Ann Moss "Sketchbookery".  First week is about contour drawing and modified contour drawing.   He...

The two things that I just love are puppies and washi tape, both of which I've had abundance.  I stop counting my washi tape after I re...

When making journals sometimes I don't need the whole piece of watercolor paper.  So when I cut the watercolor paper to size I usually ...

Last weekend I went to Santa Barbara and Ventura to enjoy the nice sunny warm weather.  This is a quick wet-on-wet watercolor that I did in...

    I'm working on a series of finches that I thought I could use for note cards.          

In the morning when I'm sitting outside in my backyard  drinking my morning coffee, I can hear small birds chirping.  I wanted to try a...