Let’s paint a beautiful watercolor version of Little red Riding Hood. I decided to film the video on location to show you how fun it can be to just whip out your paint, your brush and some paper and enjoy nature. It was a relaxing afternoon, and you can hear the birds and insects chirping […]
Remember I told you I was working to get ready for my upcoming class, EVER AFTER 2017? I am joining 15 amazing mixed media artists to talk about our personal styles and how to develop your own, our art and we share our secrets in a series of video classes where we create a […]
I’m getting ready for my upcoming collaborative class, class EVER AFTER 2017, where I join 15 mixed media artists and together we will teach you about our art and techniques, how to develop your own style and we will have painting classes for you. I wanted to make a few painting land lessons about them, […]
I am super exited!! I will be teaching an online class on the collaborative online workshop “Ever After” this year! You can read all about it and enter for a chance to win a free seat on my new online class with THIS LINK to my main blog. Good luck, and I hope to see […]
I like to read old doll making books because they have techniques for doing everything by hand (I’m old school like that) and I came across this quote. It really hit a string for me, because it encompasses everything I believe about making my own dolls. Mass produced items have a perfect quality about them, but […]
I am having a great time and work creating an art doll collection. I have been working non stop on the dolls and I thought it would be fun to stop for a moment to tell you the story of the doll creation using images from the doll making process and turning the tale into a mini tutorial. […]
They say that the UPS truck is the adult version of the ice cream truck. And you know what? They are right! Today the truck arrived and left a package on my doorstep that I have been waiting for a long time. Want to see what it is? It’s a huge box of Derwent inktense […]
Remember how I lately I have been obsessed with Alice in wonderland? The last product from that obsession is this beautiful Alice doll! Let me share with you how she began and the steps I followed to let her come to life in my art studio in the course of a week. I started out with […]
You know I am always looking for excuses to create little wood kokeshi dolls collections! They are perfect because I love working on projects at the time and I rarely revisit them once they are done. So, these collection are perfect for me because I can make a collection while keeping them fresh and exclusive, and […]
I’ve been having a lot of fun creating new little paintings to try out new things, new techniques and new ways to use my art materials. After the well received Alice in Wonderland collection (Thank you! I had great comments about it! If you haven’t seen them, you should!) I was a exhausted, It took […]
