Here are my Party Birds! This week’s design challenge theme is all the other holidays of the year…anything from Valentine’s Day to Thanksgiving. I think these birds would be great as a birthday party table cloth or even a New Years Party table. Between hand-painting the birds and assembling the pattern, this design took me…
Category: Watercolor
Favorite Things Design Challenge
Watercolor is my Favorite! Spoonflower gave us a lot of freedom in this challenge. Basically, they just gave us instructions to build a fabric design around one of your favorite things. I’d say painting floral watercolors is absolutely one of my favorite things. Thus, I took a favorite painting and made a repeating pattern out…
New ORIGINAL Artwork
Hi friends. I had a lovely, relaxing Sunday last weekend. I spent the whole morning lettering scripture verses on some backgrounds I had painted a few weeks ago. This new original artwork was all done with Italian-made metallic watercolor paints that almost look embossed. Up til now, I’ve only had digital downloads available for sale…
New Watercolor Backgrounds
I’m dabbing a toe in the waters of digital watercolor background downloads on Etsy. (Mostly, this was excuse to spend all morning painting therapeutic, swirly, no-rules designs. It was a lovely use of a weekend!) But there seems to be quite a demand for these. People love them for social media posts, card making, scrapbooking,…
Birding Spoonflower Design Challenge
This design took me ten hours! It’s definitely a personal record for hours invested in a Spoonflower design challenge. First, I painted the Lilac-breasted Roller, a gorgeous bird from Africa. Then I painted all the botanical elements. Lastly, I combined everything in the illustration app Procreate on my iPad. That alone took 6 hours! Here’s…
Large Format Watercolor
In 2019, a dear friend of mine asked if I would take a commission to do a painting of Crater Lake for her. I was honored! This was my first and only commissioned piece. I hesitated at first, as I had never done a large format watercolor painting before (It ended up being 24”x36”), and…
That satisfying moment
When you pull the tape off and reveal those crisp, clean edges. Just so good! This is my most recent watercolor painting, Celestial Foundations.