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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

When I start a new painting, I always begin with two copies, just in case one of them doesn’t turn out well. Sometimes this means I end up with two great art pieces! For this purple octopus, I made it smaller on the page because the first one took up the whole canvas. I also tried to…

Someone recently mentioned that a purple octopus would complete her collection. And I thought, yes, it would! I haven’t done a sparkly purple octopus yet, so, challenge accepted! I started with markers, as I usually do, and I intended to use the watercolor powders to enhance the background. But I wanted to have more control,…

This is my second attempt at combining my octopus paintings with the new abstract powder paintings. The blue abstracts looked so much like water that it felt like an obvious combination. However, I wanted to use my favorite color palette: a teal or turquoise blue with a rusty orange or red. These colors together make my heart…