My intention was to create more inferno paintings like the blue ones I painted a few months ago. As it turns out, yellow and red powders do not work the same way as blue powder. I felt that the painting was boring, though it was screaming “flower!” at me. Enter my trusty mockup tool, Procreate, and…

As you may know, I’ve been dabbling more in the abstract art realm. Over the last couple of months, I’ve been experimenting with these colorful inferno watercolor paintings. I started with abstracts in blue, green, and purple. The blue and purple paintings turned out really great. There is a good amount of color contrast within those…

There’s a great organization in San Francisco called ArtSpan, and every year it helps artists all over the city prepare for opening their studios to the public. ArtSpan provides publicity, events, and marketing to help artists get seen during San Francisco Open Studios (SFOS). Since 2010, I’ve participated in about seven SFOS events. My best experience was in…

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…

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…

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…

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…