The October 2010 issue of Watercolor Artist is featuring the painting process for Mixed Messages (shown below) in the “Rough Starts,” Creativity Workshop. Follow this link to read more: http://www.artistsnetwork.com/article/wca-creativity-rough-starts/
Want more texture in your paintings? Take on the creativity challenge and submit your entries. http://www.artistsnetwork.com/article/wca-creativity-rough-starts/ Deadline: October 11, 2010
I’m impressed with artists who post a painting a day on their blogs. Let’s see how taking a photo a day goes for me. And if they are any good, I’ll post them 
A passion for photography in the late 1980s is what eventually led me to wanting to learn to paint from my photos in the 1990s. And today, two decades later, if I paint from a photo – it’s my own. Authenticity resonates.
It was a fat snow fall yesterday. Snowballs raining from the sky. Early this morning outside my studio window it lingered briefly, heavy on the pines.
Home to a red-bellied woodpecker, wandering deer, and squirrels training for the olympics in the lateral, long-distance, flying-jump category.
All just a block from downtown. Diamonds in our backyard.
Enjoy the journey.
