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You Light Up My Life

First… just a quick note to let everyone know that I’m feeling much better after my “melt-down” last week. My … More

Candle-making, Crafts

Something New to Play With

From the time I first heard of them, I’ve been curious about oil sticks.  Recently, I decided to get a small … More

Dick Blick, Oil Sticks, Shiva

49 Dots and Other Drawing Exercises

In the summer of 2021 I downloaded an art instruction book by Barrington Barber — Learn to Draw: 10-Week Course … More

Barrington Barber, Drawing exercises, Fundamentals of Drawing

For Pete’s Sake… Just Do It!

Almost two years ago — June 30, 2020, to be exact — I wrote and published a post with the … More

15 Day Floral Challenge, Art Hub for Kids, Oil Pastels, Roses

Seven Years Ago

June 9, 2015. That’s when it all began for me. Most of you know the story, but for the newer … More

Craft Haven, Creative Cats, Drawing Lessons for Beginner Artists, Kate Berry, Prismacolor Premier

Thick and Thin

It’s a new month and I’m doing a new “Daily Practice” class at Creative Bug. A quick note here — … More

Blue Squid, Creative Bug, Joy Ting, Practice exercises, watercolor techniques

What This Goddess Taught Me

Today I’m sharing my “Rainbow Goddess”, the third of the goddesses I created while following along with Lily Sol’s “Daily … More

Goddess Energy, Lily Sol, Oil Pastel, Rainbow Goddess

African Daisies

Do you know what a gazania is? I didn’t. So when it came up as a prompt for the Floral … More

African Daisy, Floral Challenge, Gazania, Oil Pastel

The Ranunculus — Revisited

My year began with ranunculus. Perhaps you remember how confused and disoriented I felt at the start of 2022 as … More

Floral Challenges, Ranunculus

I Am Not Drawing a Mermaid!

Recently I created an “Earth Goddess“, following along with instructor Lily Sol in a Creative Bug “Daily Practice” class called … More

Creative Bug, Daily practice, Feminine Energy, Lily Sol, Mermaids, Water Goddess

Zestful Zinnias

Just so you know, I have now successfully completed my “15-Day Floral Challenge“. You’ve previously seen my first nine oil … More

15 Day Floral Challenge, Clay-Shaping Tools, Oil Pastels, Zinnias

Art Quiz: The Answer is China

I guessed correctly on this one, but I had no idea what gongbi or baimiao were, so I had to do a … More

Asian Art, Baimiao, Chinese art, Gongbi

Wonky Vases – My Still Life Painting

Yesterday I shared my initial studies done in preparation for a still life painting with oil pastels. At the end of … More

Challenges, Oil Pastels, Still Life

The Zorn Palette

I first heard of the “Zorn” palette through one of our area art clubs. Our HFAA group recently put on … More

Anders Zorn, Limited palettes, Zorn Palette

It Ain’t Me, Babe

If you’re old like me, you’ll remember this Bob Dylan classic. “It Ain’t Me, Babe” is said to be one … More

Art Media, Art supplies, Bob Dylan, Collage

My “Dazzling Dahlia”

Remember that sad-looking overgrown dahlia I drew last month? Oh, it was depressing. That oil pastel painting was — in … More

Dahlia, Oil Pastels, Paul Rubens, Sennelier

Broadening My Horizons

I’m having fun in my art studio these days. After deciding one day to simply pretend I had some natural artistic … More

Cray-Pas Expressionists, Daler Rowney, Mungyo Gallery Pastels, Pentel Oil Pastels, Sakura, Sennelier

The Birch Forest

Yesterday was the final day of the Student Art Show sponsored by our HFAA club. I went to the library … More

Cass County Library, Oil Pastels, Tiny Art

Let’s Mix It Up Today

As a very messy oil painter, I’m always looking for tips that might help me keep my palette better-organized and … More

Mixing Oil Paint, Palette Knives

Making Messy Art

Many times I’ve said that creativity is “making a mess” — but that’s only part of it. The rest of … More

Bad art, Barrington Barber, Creative process, Karen Abend, Making messes, Sketchbook Revival 2022, Tamara LaPorte

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