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Category: art
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Painting red tulips
Recently, I’ve had flowers on my easel. I’ve been painting red tulips and poppies plus other stuff but today I’ll just share the progression of the red tulips. First, I’d to thank anyone who has sent good vibes or prayers for my surgery. It was last Friday and this is Monday. The surgery went well…
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New for 2024 Paint Palette Calendars
This year I’ve come up with a new idea for my yearly art calendar, a Paint Palette Calendar! I’m pretty excited about it. It’s twelve months worth of different paint palettes that I’ve used for various paintings. I came up with the idea while thinking about how some people like to support artists even though…
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Abstract Nature Studies on Paper
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To try and stay loose with my painting, I like to create these small abstract nature studies on paper. I call them smalls. It’s not always as easy as it looks. First, I started with mark making, then paint sploshing and swishing, carving into wet paint with the end of my brush handle and smudging…
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The Creation of Creative Type Podcast
I’ve been dying to talk about it and it’s finally here! Creative Type Podcast is now a reality and can be listened to on all of your podcast apps including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and more. We also have a video version of the podcast each week on YouTube. If you don’t have any podcasts…
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New graffiti art style paintings
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Last week I had a couple of paintings call to me to paint. I had a vision in my head of these paintings the night before I painted them. Not the kind of angels singing vision, but a flash in my brain or imagination maybe of what they would look like. Surprisingly, the next morning…
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Magical Patchwork collection
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Wow, how did the middle of December get here so quickly? It just seems like yesterday when I was starting the Magical Patchwork collection which I called smalls back in October. What?! October? Jeesh. Yet another reminder of how fast time is passing. At any rate, I’m not here to complain about time like I…
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2023 Artist Collaboration Calendar
So excited to share the 2023 Artist Collaboration Calendar is available now!! I’ve got my painting “Mystical Mother Nature” in one of three wall calendars plus a planner. There’s 86 professional female artists from all over the world contributing to this collaboration project. Check out all the art included in our 4 options, and pick…
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In the studio creating smalls
So what are smalls? Smalls are small pieces of artwork. It’s kinda artist talk. I’m not sure if I’ve heard of them referred to as smalls by anyone else other than artists. Anyway, I’m calling them smalls. I started these smalls by taping off a large piece of watercolor paper into 16 finished sections of…
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First Exhibit of 2022 – Winter Trees
This past Monday, I hung my first exhibit of 2022, “Winter Trees”. It consists of nine paintings of trees that I created from a process I’ve been enjoying lately. You might remember my last exhibit here, Delights of Spring. They were giant compared to these blue paintings. These tree paintings are 6″x6″ with three that…