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TULIPS and Watercolor Greeting Cards

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Greetings! Tulips Tulips Tulips Do you know about my garden? Well, let me tell you. last November I planted 700 bulbs!!!!! . (I'll give you a moment while you take that in......) . Yes, 700! 300 Tulips, 100 Daffodils, 100 Irises and an assortment of others. AND THEY BLOOMED!!! The tulips are just now finishing their bloom cycle, the daffodils ended last week and the irises are shooting buds up. It's an exciting time here (well, for me at least). Given our current shelter in place order, I sure am glad that I spent that time planting last year. It's been a delight. Not only do they look fantastic, it's given me a lot to photograph and paint. And I've been painting a lot this past year. However, I'm just now getting around to listing anything in my Etsy shop. So, I spent a good portion of today updating my listings. There are quite a few new Spring flower watercolor greeting cards (and more on the way tomorrow!).These are my favorite! So bright, so ch
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It's been a LONG time since I've posted here. I've been fairly busy with life since Spring 2018. We moved from Arizona to Washington in Nov. 2018 and bought a house in March 2019. That's not the half of it but anyway.... I'm slowly making my way into the art scene here. I've joined Peninsula Art League and am teaching 1 day/week at the local community college in their continuing education department.I'm currently teaching a class on watercolor journaling. The next session (starting 3/30) I will be teaching watercolor florals.
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Print making

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My middle school class has been creating different giraffe artwork for the past month. This week we made prints from 'stamps' that they made of cut foam pieces on cardboard and acrylic paint. All of the students wanted to do secondary prints -color on color. I think the results were great and they all enjoyed the process.
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Art Night at Sovereign Grace Church

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I had the privilege of leading a group of ladies in a painting this week. I chose a design that was inspired by a Pinterest find. After tweeting it to make it mine design, we set off on our adventure in acrylics! Many of the ladies were able to personalize their paintings and had some beautiful results. Many thanks to my friends Heidi Landis and Cynthia Pettit for their help.
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Monet and Van Gogh in Acrylics

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For our last project of the semester, I asked my 4 high school art students to research a famous artist and choose one of his or her famous works to recreate. The end results were beautiful - although not all of the students are done yet.
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Watercolor Updates

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I've finally gotten back to painting after the Thanksgiving holiday. I'm currently working on one of two commissioned pieces for a friend - photos next week - hopefully! I also did a commission piece for another friend, Orchids. It's a small(ish) 8x10" for her bathroom. I can't wait to see it framed and hung. Lastly, I painted a western tanager. I've never seen this bird but a customer at my booth at the Shemer Art Center's Arizona Arts Festival, asked me to paint one. I think it turned out beautiful and I would love to see one some day.
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Arizona Arts Festival

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I had an amazing weekend at the Shemer Art Center's Arizona Arts Festival (Nov. 4 & 5, 2017). Many thanks for the support of my husband, Darrell,and my friends,Sussy Salazar and Heidi Landis. Darrell was available to set up my haul in and set up my display materials on Saturday morning and Sussy and Heidi were my sales assistants. Sussy helped me tear down and pack up all my stuff on Sunday afternoon. I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU! I sold quite a few hand-painted watercolor cards, several matted original paintings and a few acrylic pours. More importantly, I got myself out there, made connections with customers and introduced Phoenix to my art. I'm so grateful for the opportunity and look forward to next year!
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