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Highlights of a Year in Creativity and Growth: 2024
52 books read 528.25 miles biked outside 95 new e-mail subscribers 167 new YouTube subscribers 28 new Instagram followers 70 new Facebook...
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Jan 81 min read
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12 Holiday Gift Ideas For Young Artists
Creative Gifts Are The Best Gifts! If you're still shopping for holiday gifts for the young artist or creative kid in your life, check...
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Dec 10, 20243 min read
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November Favorite Things
Favorite things I want to share with you this month.
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Nov 14, 20243 min read
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Discovering the Michigan-Made Sunflower Oil Paintings and Ornaments: A Beautiful Journey in Nature Through Art
The result is a beautiful collection of six sunflower paintings created in oil paint and a set of 15 sunflower ornaments that I'm excited to
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Nov 13, 20243 min read
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October Favorite Things
Fall season brings us beautiful color, golden light, and crisp air but also means things get a little more dry. So this is when I start...
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Oct 7, 20243 min read
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September Favorite Things
In my Inner Circle subscriber e-mails, I often share my current favorite things, which may include tools and materials I use in my...
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Sep 16, 20242 min read
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August Favorite Things
Here are three favorite things I want to share with you this month:
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Aug 15, 20242 min read
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Art Studio Refresh
In the process of transforming my art studio from a photography zone to a group painting and drawing space, I spent a week sorting,...
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Mar 8, 20242 min read
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Artist Style and Fear
In finding your style as an artist, copying is a necessary part of the process. This is something that seems taboo, and I want to open up...
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Apr 12, 20234 min read
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New Plant Painting Collection
A whole new art collection is forming in my studio, and it is absolutely beautiful already! I unofficially refer to these paintings as my...
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Jan 22, 20232 min read
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2022 Year In Review
Some Fun Art And Painting Highlights to Reflect On My Second Year In Business It hit me today that there are just FOUR days left of the...
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Dec 27, 20222 min read
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Guided Meditation For Beginners
If you've been curious about trying meditation, I have just the resource for you! It is an app called Insight Timer, and it is free (with...
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Nov 3, 20222 min read
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Peek At My 2022 Holiday Collection
Introducing Deckle The Halls, a collection of 8 (or more?) soothing mixed-media paintings on cotton watercolor paper with hand-deckled...
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Oct 12, 20222 min read
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My Big Canvas Wall Art Painting
I’m excited to tell you the story of this statement piece— the largest painting I’ve ever made! At 36x72 inches in size, it is ideal...
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Jul 17, 20222 min read
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New Baby Chicks
Aside from the increased daylight, the best thing about spring is all the adorable baby animals! We welcomed 13 fuzzy new chicks to our...
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Apr 14, 20221 min read
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Small Town Project — Painting Local Legacies
Introducing My Personal Project For 2022 Every year, I choose a creative project to help me grow more skilled and push myself out of my...
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Mar 18, 20222 min read
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Art Studio Virtual Tour
I’m so excited to show you what’s going on inside of my art studio because I’ve been doing a lot of rearranging and now have a whole new...
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Feb 2, 20221 min read
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Winter's Blanket: the First Painting of the Year
The school bus picks up right at the end of our driveway, and on winter mornings waiting out there with my kids, the sun peeks out from...
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Jan 25, 20222 min read
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The Two That Got In
I remember last year crying literal happy tears upon the news that my painting, The Next Twenty Years, got accepted in a juried local art...
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Jan 18, 20222 min read
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How To Read More Books This Year
If your goal is to read more books in 2022 or to simply find some new books to read this year, I’m here to help. Is there a word for...
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Jan 6, 20225 min read
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