I am excited to announce that my DVD, The You Factor: Powerful, Personal Design in Opaque Watercolor, filmed for Creative Catalyst Productions, is currently available! To see a sneak preview and a 4-part interview I did with CCP, click HERE
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Schools and things that painters taught me kept me from painting as I wanted to. I decided that I was a very stupid fool not to say what I wanted to say when I painted. Georgia O’Keefe
Recently I had a question from a reader about what we should take away from art workshops. This reader had a very [...]
Donna Zagotta, A Pair of Pears
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do – can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. Barbara Sher
Happy Painting!
In my last post, I stated that it all begins and ends with love. I used a quote by Robert Fritz, a part of which I’d like to take another look at: The love comes first, and the situation later. In the creative process, love is generative rather than simply responsive. The object of your love does not [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, sometimes we paint the way we do simply because that’s the way we were taught. We take classes and workshops and often we’re so busy learning other artists’ rules, techniques, color and composition tastes, etc. that we miss the whole point. It’s not about finding techniques, rules, and formulas. [...]
Sometimes we paint the way we do simply because that’s the way we were taught. We take classes and workshops and often we’re so busy learning other artists’ rules, techniques, color and composition tastes, etc. that we miss the whole point. It’s not about finding techniques, rules, and formulas. It’s about using your chosen medium, your [...]
I am a watermedia painter and I teach painting workshops all around the country. As anyone who knows me or has taken one of my workshops can attest to, I love talking about art, thinking about art, reading about art, learning about art, looking at art, and practicing art - so, grab a cup of coffee and join me in the studio to see what else is percolating!
