What you’ll need for the next class or workshop
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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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Spending most of my adult life as a military spouse, I’ve realized how ‘traveling light’ can make a difference in your life. It’s always been something that fascinates me, and keeps me intrigued. From the first time I moved house from one state to another, with toddler twins, I began to realize how a well curated life affects everyone in the household. It’s not that I’m a bare-bones minimalist….not even close.
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I told my friends, “Look at this!!! I love this sense of whimsy….I want to paint whimsy!!”
“Well, then you should” answered one of my friends. (I do wish I had taken a photo of the three of us under that painting!).
But I just didn’t know where to begin. I had always seen myself as a ‘serious’ painter.
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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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I’ve noticed a trend this year. ‘Traveling Light with Watercolor’ has spilled over into all parts of my life. So yes, I call it a lifestyle!
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Everything to take you from that ‘10-minute sketch-walk’ outdoors, to a Loose, big and Bold painting indoors and on your wall!
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July 27th was my last day as Artist in Residence at Chateau Orquevaux. Ron has filmed me for a practice run for our Open Studio event, where we share with our cohorts what we’ve been working on and where we are going with our current endeavors. Hope you enjoy the sneak peak into that world! It was a month of great growth for me!
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There is a freedom that comes with going to a far-away place for creative work. We’re able to focus without the distractions of life imposing its will on us. And, we’re immersed with people who not only inspire, but freely talk about their doubts and processes, helping us to sort our own.
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Have you ever wished for time to just work on your skills? Time to dream, learn, be inspired, and “refill the well” of your creativity? I have been doing that exact thing for the last two weeks, and have two more weeks ahead of me, here at Chateau Orquevaux.
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Come paint with me in Tuscany this September 6-15, 2022.
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Now that you know travel can be done - and done with care and precaution for our current times, I invite you to join me next year on one (or both) of my travel and paint destinations!
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The purpose of this challenge is to get us painting each day during the month of May - keep it simple and easy, and adjust to your energy level as needed!
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We learn to see the outer SHAPES and dimensions, indicate the outer parameters on the page….starting with the outer shape before we get to details.
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And every week, he’ll ask me, “So, how were classes today?”. And every single week, I babble on like a crazy person about how much fun I had! He just looks at me, smiles, and says, “This is the happiest I’ve ever seen you in your whole life”. Yes, I know he’s right! I have found what I really love doing. (He says I have found ‘the elixir to life’, ha!!) I’m so glad my students are enjoying it, too.
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I also love collecting quotes that I find fascinating. One that really struck me in this book was, “ Every timidity eventually turns into regret.” I find that true on so many levels.
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Who knows when we’ll get to travel again freely? Most of us are really missing planned vacations and travel to places far and near. But for right now, since half the fun of travel is the anticipation and preparation, let’s enjoy this sketchbook session. Here’s your cure for a boring summer! I do hope you’ll join us!
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“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” - Mother Teresa
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Most people think of me as a happy-go-lucky, cheerful, hard-working person. Usually I am. But a long while back I was in quite a low place, that I thought I’d never climb out of. What finally got me out? Read here…..
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