Greetings from Los Angeles!  Tomorrow (Saturday 27 April) at noon PDT, on my Books In Search of a Good Home blog, I'll be adding these gems to my pile of books that need to find new homes. These are treasures from my collection of books that have helped guide and inspire me in my art practice.  At noon pdt, refresh my book blog, and a new page will pop up. Please let me know if you have any questions.  As always, I appreciate your interest and support.  Thank you.  ..read more

     Friday Mornings 11 AM PDT I've been painting every Friday morning since the summer of 2022. I started it as part of a bonus "summer camp" experience in The Art Life Workshop, and folks loved it so much that I kept it as a regular feature. I really look forward to our Friday sessions. It's a wonderful way to gather together with artists worldwide, paint/create, share, and ask questions. I think that committing to a regular practice is important, and I recognize that "regular" is different for everyone. You need to figure out what works for *you*. Is it painting on your lu ..read more

 March was busy in The Art Life: Find Your Way!     We always have lots of opportunities for learning, sharing, and creative inspiration in TAL: Find Your Way Workshop Community!      Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the live session or need to revisit the techniques and ideas shared, the workshop is recorded and placed in our abundant library archive with forever access (there's 3 years of content in our library!)    I am thinking of expanding these live sessions to other days and times!     ..read more

SOME of the books from my personal library that I need to downsize. More here.  Painted Books Each book is approximately 4 1/2" x 6"  (page size varies in each journal)   Also LIMITED a minimum of 10 pieces of a variety  of painted paper (equals 40 pages/sides)   MOST pages in the books are painted   No two are alike!   Yes, they are from paintings as well as palette pages   These can be used as mini journals, sketchbooks, or diaries.    You can even take them apart and use the painted pages as beginnings for new work (yes, a collabo ..read more

Here's what we did in The Art Life: Find Your Way for February 2024!   Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the live session or need to revisit the techniques and ideas shared, the workshop is recorded and placed in our abundant library archive with forever access (there's 3 years of content in our library!     These live painting sessions are a great way to carve out designated art time on a regular basis. Creating a regular practice can change your approach to art making, and possibly your life (it's changed mine.) In additi ..read more

Painterly Pages with One Brush Saturday 16 March 2024  approximately 2 1/2 hours** 11 AM - 1:30 PM PST   REGISTRATION IS LIMITED    *First 20 people to sign up before midnight PST on February 29th will receive a very special surprise from me*    Come paint with me!   Create rich, luscious, painterly pages in this special 2 1/2 hour workshop. These papers can be used in paintings, as art journal pages, as painted backgrounds, collage pieces and much, much more. I'll share the basics of my favorite brush (it's not a magic brush, and if you don't have one ..read more

  Years ago, I asked for suggestions on art books specifically for painters. I wasn't looking for how to books. I wanted books that made me feel less alone as an artist, specifically as a painter. I was searching for books by other artists who've been there and know what it's like to work alone in your studio. Here's some of my suggestions that have helped me over the years. Again, these are NOT how to books: The Blank Canvas Anna Held Audette Letters of Vincent Van Gogh Art as Experience John Dewey  Art and Fear Bayles and Orland On Art and Mindfulness Enrique Martinez Celaya Pai ..read more

  A look back at some of the work we did in The Art Life: Find Your Way for January 2024!   Every Friday, we have a live one hour painting session. For those who can't make the live session or need to revisit the techniques and ideas shared, the workshop is recorded and placed in our library archive with forever access.    These live painting sessions are a great way to carve out designated art time on a regular basis. Creating a regular practice can change your approach to art making, and possibly your life (it's changed mine.) In addition to weekly painting sessi ..read more

    Beginnings: Journaling to Welcome the New Year: A PWYCW (pay what you can) Saturday 20 January 2024  11 AM - 1 PM PST   How do we welcome ritual?    How do we make journaling a regular practice?   Let's start the New Year right with art, inspiration, encouragement and creativity!   Welcome the new year by diving deep onto your journal pages filling them with rich, luscious layers of paper, paint, color and text.   The exercises in this workshop are:   paper, paint, and pen designed to nurture, inspire and encourage you to cre ..read more

  I filmed a mini teaser of my TAL: Find Your Way workshop the other day.  You can find it here: This is not demonstrated in the above video, but this is ONE of the samples of the art I'll be demonstrating in TAL: FIND YOUR WAY:    (I'll be demonstrating this with collage as well as how to paint some of the elements from scratch!) as well as:   See the journal covers below?    We have LIVE painting sessions  on a weekly basis! Everything that you see on the covers of the journals below (as well as the insides) can already be found in TAL: Find You ..read more