Water & Color: A Love Story

Layers and layers of watercolor. The watercolor brought the pencils lines to life by communicating shadow, depth, tone…mood. 

Gestures

Painting is an active practice.   Movement is essential - and the larger the canvas, the more physical the practice becomes. I still love my small canvases, but I am finding I need more space to ex...

Space To Explore...

Sometimes making the time and space to explore begins with curiosity, "I wonder how you use these things...", is enough to launch the answer through exploration. 

Heart Melted

From the time she understood that he was her older brother, she began looking out for him. Which seemed strange to me, because she was younger. In return, he always wanted her to play with him. Acc...

Painting With My Hands Open

It feels selfish to talk about the peace that comes when I spend time with Him. The security and joy that accompanies that peace feel too immediate, sometimes too easily won. There was no 'pr...

Inexhaustible

It wasn’t until I was two years into an unhealthy marriage (some 10 years after college) that He got my full attention and whole heart. Desperate for peace and to know God’s love, I began to read w...

Welcome, Imposter...

Therefore when we’re crumbling creatively under the weight of fear and expectation, we have already taken on too much that was never ours to carry.

Well...I Shut My Mouth and Painted

Creating from a mindset not hijacked by perfection and doubt invites a freedom that (ironically) yields beautiful and intentional work.

Gurl, Just Shut Up and Paint!

Perfection is a selfish thing. But you can leave her and all her funky friends with their limiting beliefs on the side of the road with all the other discarded and unusable stuff.