A very big THANK YOU to everyone who bought, shared links or commented on my sale post from the weekend. I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU. I will be shipping the work out this week.    Again, THANK YOU.   Above is a recent palette from work done over the weekend.   It was a good weekend. David and I stayed home and we were both able to get a lot of work done, which was good. I taught two workshops and a salon in my Art Life: Painting by the Season. We painted a red bell pepper on Friday:   On Sunday, we started exploring VALUE. I had a slideshow of various paintings ..read more

My studio (aka my corner of the living room) is bursting at the seams with my work!    It's time to make some room and have a FLASH STUDIO SALE!  I will do this only once a year, so catch it while you can.      SALE PRICES: MAY 26 - MAY 30TH, 2023 NOON PDT   I will offer payment plans, if needed. Please note that shipping costs are US. If you are interested, I will ship outside of the US at current USPS prices. Please contact me to make arrangements.Questions? Please email EGorey99@sbcglobal.net  Original Journal Pages: please n ..read more

Last year I bought a large wooden palette. I wanted something that I could prop up on my easel and work from as I filmed my workshops. (Far cheaper than buying a second camera to record a palette!) I bought a Richeson palette because I liked the size of it and thought that it would be the best thing for the job. I painted it a light grey before I used it. (You can see where I had my palette paper taped to the palette.) Well, one thing that I wasn't very good about was cleaning the palette after every use. I'd let the paint (especially white) dry up until it got to the point where mixing any ..read more

    I love when a palette is this pretty. I had to take a photo of it.   I thought that I'd share some recent things painted in the Art Life: Painting by the Season Workshop.  This Friday (19 May) we are painting bubbles! The week before we painted flowers   (peonies to be more precise): Another recent palette that I loved: This Sunday, the 21st,  The Art Life: Painting by the Season is our monthly two hour painting workshop.  Our theme for this workshop is   Planting a Garden (real or imaginary.)    Here's my ode to a favorite garden&nbs ..read more

  Planting Seeds: A BRAND NEW  Pay What You Can Workshop 20 May 2023 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. PDT   Let's plant some seeds!    My workshops are about inspiring creativity, generating ideas, and learning how to see. The ideas shared can be translated across a wide variety of art forms and mediums.   Using our tools at hand (paper, acrylic paint, pens, and more), learn new ways to bring together paper and paint. Create rich and colorful journal pages that are meaningful and unique to you.  Strengthen your skills, expand your creative vocabulary and gain confiden ..read more

I'm sharing a recent post from The Art Life: Painting by the Season Workshop. This is information shared in one of our recent salons. I filmed the segment for the workshop and decided to share it here with you. (Big thanks to my Art Life students!) If you haven't heard the news, PO 48 (the pigment used in Quinacridone Gold) has gone the way of PO 49 (the original Quin Gold pigment.) Before you panic or even worse, panic buy, I'm sharing some information about it here that may help you: Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/lCeCcwlhUC0 Supplies used: card stock, palette (non porous surfa ..read more

    May is here and it brings NEW things!   I'm trying something new and I'd like to invite you!   I've started a page over at Ko-Fi.  What's Ko-Fi? It's where you can support your favorite artists in exchange for inspiring and informative posts, digital goodies, printed goodies, one on one mentoring, private workshops, original art and MORE. With Ko-Fi, you are a patron of the arts!   I have two options available:   The shop that allows you to buy things for one month only. You can get the printed goodies in the mail or digital prints here.   OR Under ..read more

    Happy May, my friends!   I finished my third journal for 2023 the other day and I thought I'd share a video flip through tour of it. Most of the work that you see is done for my Art Life: Painting by the Season Workshop. (This is the sample for this Friday's paint session on peonies (or your favorite flower or whatever else you may feel like working on during our one hour weekly live painting session/workshop.))   The Art Life is about many things including keeping a regular art practice. I try to encourage, nurture and inspire people to keep creative. I've been sket ..read more

 April 2023   Art practice.    These words are very important to me. For many years, I wanted a space where I could share my workshops and create a community. In 2022, I finally did it. I finally had the resources and time to create this space.     I called it The Art Life.   What is an art practice? What do you need to be successful with your art practice?   You need time.  You need resources.  You need education.  You need mentoring.  You need community.  You need to surround yourself with people just as passionat ..read more

Some recent studies (painting, sketches and palette) for this Friday's live painting session in The Art Life: Painting by the Season Workshop.  Shared here because we all need more beauty in our lives. I hope that this post inspires you to find and create your own beauty today ..read more