Posts in Journaling
Night Skies and Fireflies - easy practice techniques

Opaque watercolors 'floated' on top of transparent layers can make such a dreamy 'veiled' surface. But you don't want to 'scrub' it on or you'll lift that bottom layer and make 'mud'. Here's the visual on how to make that cerulean blue (in this case) float on top of the Indigo with a fun exercise in making a night time sky - and little fireflies added in for fun!

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Traveling Light with Watercolors: Your Body/Your Art - What Does Mindset Have to do with It?

The funny thing is, as we’d meet for our bi-weekly class, I’d think, “Wow, she’s telling us the same kinds of things that I tell my students…has she been listening in on my classes”?! Ha! I suddenly put it together that mindset is the first thing we need to change when we are attempting something new, whether it’s learning to make art, or rebuilding yourself into a healthy and fit person.

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