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Painting, Teaching, and Life

Lessons I’ve learned from watercolor.
Thoughts, painting news and tips from the easel.

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Embracing my own “messiness”

Early in my art career, I often stopped myself in the midst of the creative process, calling myself out for my messiness”— both in the work I was producing and in the studio where I was producing it.

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The Element of Surprise.

When I paint, I feel two pulls. On one hand I want certainty…. To know where a painting is headed. Wouldn’t it be a relief ….

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