A Glimpse of My Art in the Wild

September 16, 2025

Allow me to share some kind words and photos from collectors… Ashley says: Love my prints Andy says: I love Nicole Hanusek’s art! I saw it on Facebook and immediately ordered a print. This beauty now hangs proudly in my basement Tiki Lounge! Skooky says: yayy! These are sooo nice. I can’t wait to get them…

How to Button Your Crappy Pants Properly

September 11, 2025

I have some cheap, crappy pants that I wear every morning when walking our two dogs. Thankfully, our dogs are not embarrassed to be seen with me in my cheap, crappy pants. After returning from a walk one morning, as I was changing my clothes, the button popped right off my cheap, crappy pants. Because…

The Challenge of a Daily Doodle

September 8, 2025

Have you ever decided to do one of those 30-day challenges? In 2010, I completed a 365-day challenge to take daily self-portraits. It was really hard to make it to the end of that challenge. There were evenings when I would crawl into bed, very tired, and I’d realize that I had not taken a…

The Most Beautiful Fidget in the Land

September 5, 2025

Do you have that friend (or two or three friends) on Instagram who you constantly swap images and videos with for fun?One of my Instagram friends sent me a video of this really cool 3-D printed “fidget thing.” I’ve been fidgeting my whole life; I’m pretty sure that’s why I always had terrible hangnails and why…

Should I put fish in the acquarium?

September 2, 2025

I have this beautiful orange and blue abstract painting started. It’s watercolor, 18×24, and I’m titling it: The Aquarium.  There’s a fun, big blue splotch on it.  I can’t help but want to put a fish in it.  What do you think, should I paint a fish there?  Here are a few mock-ups I did in…

How to hate abstract art

August 27, 2025

Growing up, I never really liked abstract art. I didn’t see the point of it. I thought it was much more impressive to paint or draw something realistic and make it look exactly like the source material. It took real skill to replicate something that way. Later in life, when I was in college studying…

Part Two: The abstract class continued

August 25, 2025

In the abstract art class, our next assignment was to create something on a blank canvas based on whatever we were feeling in that moment. I have a really hard time with a blank white canvas in front of me. I remembered from art school that it helps to put a wash over the canvas…

Part One: Taking an abstract art class

August 22, 2025

I was visiting my sister-in-law, and she mentioned that she wanted us to make some artwork together. We looked for inspiration on Pinterest and decided to do some abstract art. Up to this point in my art career, I hadn’t done a lot of abstract art, and I really enjoyed what we did together. When…

Why I wanted to become an artist 

August 19, 2025

When I was a young girl, maybe somewhere between the ages of eight and eleven, my uncle started a conversation with me about what to do for a living when I grew up. He said he didn’t want me to have a typical job where I might be bored. He also mentioned the well-known quote…

How to dream of octopuses

August 14, 2025

My new collector friend, Rosanne, found my artwork on Etsy and shared her journey with me after purchasing the original 18×24 watercolor, Blue Abstract #01. Back in April, she said: “I was searching for a fine art piece for above my bed. I am obsessed with octopuses! And to see your piece was the right size…

The Origin of My Abstract Octopuses

August 11, 2025

In the summer of 2020, I had just finished a day full of Zoom calls, and, being an introvert, I was completely drained. That evening, I couldn’t even sit in the living room with my husband; it was too much for me. So I thought about what fills me up and recharges me. I took…

Forgot my phone – what in the heck will I do??

August 8, 2025

My wonderful husband usually drops me off for the local art fairs. He helps me unload the car, and we set up the tent before he bids me farewell, wishes me good luck, and heads back home. On this particular day, I got everything set up, including the tables, my wall, and all of the…