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I'm a day late again, for multiple reasons. Catch up on last week's adventure here. Yesterday was Christmas, so we had quite a bit going on, and not all of it was good. Our older cat Pallas has been in declining health all year. We thought we were managing it with a couple different medicines (giving a cat pills one to two times a day is...an adventure let me tell you!) but on Christmas Eve she took a sudden turn for the worse. We sat with her all day and made her as comfortable as possible, but any time we...

I'm a day late and a dollar short. What even happened last week?? Let's review. Ah yes. Wow that was only a week ago? It feels like a month! It was a stressful week both professionally, personally and artistically. I didn't paint daily like I should have, but I focused on a commission for my mother in law as I needed to do.  I felt better overall with the quality of work I created last week. I painted a few more bonfires, trying out a few more of my ideas. It was a mixed bag--I like the vibrant neon colors I...

And we're back with another look at the past week in the life of a part-time watercolor artist. Last time here. This last week start off poorly, carrying over my painter's block and dissatisfaction with my work from the week before. I started Angela Fehr's 2020 winter workshop since it focuses on abstract paintings. I felt surprisingly good about some of my notan work and jumped right in to color experiments. But something just wasn't working. I liked a few color combos I tried, and I moved on to some larger attempts...but I wasn't super happy with any of them...

Well now we have our answer: it took 3 weeks for me to fall off the wagon of Friday's weekly summaries. (Last time here.) Whoops. In my defense, it was the Friday after Thanksgiving, and I took the day off most work.  I wouldn't have had much to write last week anyway. It's been a disappointing and frustrating couple of weeks of painting, with nothing turning out how I want. I'm still incapable of getting the ideas in my head out onto paper the way I want them.  I have been practicing my brush skills over the last week or...

My "Forest Cascade" original palette knife watercolor is part of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society's show "Home for the Holidays." The virtual show opened Saturday and you can see all the featured works on the @riwatercolor Facebook page!This is a national show for 2D media that selected 90 works from 187 entries. I am especially excited about this one because it's the first time I've been selected for a watercolor society show! "Forest Cascade"Watercolor on cotton paper, mounted on board14 Inches x 10 Inches$250