Latest Painting Time-lapse & Relearning Old Skills
If you had asked me 17 years ago after finishing business school, what I would do for a living, I would hardly say this. This being: a writer, an artist, a creative business coach. Among the main jobs, though, is this underlying set of job titles: marketing manager,...
Planning TCe’s First Creative Retreat
Some news I've been sitting on for a while...we are having our first Creative Exponent Retreat this October in Watercolor, Florida! We always wanted to plan a creative retreat (preferably in Europe), but our plans shifted as the world did over the last year and a...
The Middle: The Words We Speak
Hi! If you’d like to start and read The Middle in sequential order, start here! This book is written wildly, chapters out of order in the sequence they occurred in my life. They are written wildly for a reason. The middle of our lives is a lot of things, but it is...
Studio Scenes & Real Life
It's early morning, and with a scalding cup of coffee, I step into my studio. I should've cleaned up the palette last night. My first thought is fleeting; almost instantaneously I smile at the scattered tools, and my hands itch to get over there in that mess. I should...
Best Sketchbooks for Mixed Media (My Favorites)
It's time for another favorites post...in my opinion, here are the best sketchbooks for mixed media! While they won't suit everyone's needs, I do use all of these sketchbooks for all kinds of things, in all kinds of ways. I love a good notebook, and I use so many...
The Middle: And Then There Were Five
Hi! If you’d like to start and read The Middle in sequential order, start here! This book is written wildly, chapters out of order in the sequence they occurred in my life. They are written wildly for a reason. The middle of our lives is a lot of things, but it is...
A Force
The waves crash against the shore, and there she is, standing in the sand, so white it blinds me as I watch her. She tosses the ball up in the air and catches it, I assume to a rhythm pumping through the AirPods in her ears. I used to do that. Chip away methodically...
100 Landscapes, 32-61 Collection Preview
Hello my lovely readers. I haven't told you in a while: you mean the world to me. Launching this week is #32-#61 in the 100 Landscapes I started painting in March. Your support for me overflowed when I released 1-30 (31 sold on the fly), leaving my shop sold out in a...
A Dream Within a Dream
I don’t know why I painted it. I don’t know why the brush I chose felt like the right one that afternoon, light pouring into the condo I was staying in for my creative retreat. Brush in my hand, a glass of wine so chilled it glistened with beads of condensation. ...
Why We All Need a Creative Retreat
I have been a little quiet...hello friends! Andrew and I snuck out of town for a creative business/life retreat a couple of weeks ago, and it has thrown my schedule into weirdness. I shared some snapshots on Instagram, and saved more to my highlights, but I wanted to...
Best Paint Brushes for Oil Painting
Happy Friday, my friends! Today, I'm going to share with you the best paint brushes for oil painting (in my humble opinion). When I began sharing my paintings daily on Instagram, I would have zero clue that so many people would have questions about my actual process....
The Versions of You
Growing up, I would say quite confidently I was a pistol. A firecracker. A sassy mc-sass capital S sassy pot. I spoke so soon, listened rarely, and my opinions about everything were 100% solid. It was only when I began having “girl trouble” around age twelve that...
The Corners
I posted this two years ago, but it seemed to me the timing was right to share it again, in a new way. I've learned to trust those little nudges. 😊 ************************ I was walking on the beach, the sun on my face and salt in the air. To my right there...
The Collection Release Details & Preview | 30 Paintings in 2 Weeks
It's HERE! The 30 Paintings in 2 Weeks Challenge I gave myself was entirely worth it for my creativity and productivity...and now, the collection is complete! It will release next Monday at 11 a.m. CST to my email subscribers first...I'll shoot you a reminder when it...
The Expanding of Your Soul
I was a basketball player. Like, a pretty decent basketball player. There were all star teams and all tournament teams and records broken and the like. To date, stepping on the court in my younger years is still one of the greatest highs of my life. In the fall of...
Head in the Clouds
I've had vivid dreams as long as I can remember. Vivid. A few years ago, they came back with an unearthly force, and to be honest I can only attribute some of the bizarre dream experiences as some kind of spiritual...something. I would dream of people I was deeply...
Words & Art | Worthy
I've always had a soft spot for words and art. I am not typically, however, drawn to word art. Words came to me much earlier in my life, as I wrote my first short story before I was in the second grade. Art, though, specifically paintings, came much later. It was...
How to Make Your Own Oil Paint | Pigment Mixing Tutorial
Hey hey! I tried to get our weekly newsletter out last week, and it just didn't happen. Ahh, life. Sometimes, the shifting of priorities is the priority. While I know a lot of you may not have played with mixing your own oil paint before, this process has become so...
30 Paintings in Two Weeks: A Challenge & An Art Sale
You guys know I challenged myself to paint and write everyday beginning in January... It has brought me so much joy, and I love the practice of getting better and growing in such a steady, intentional way. I’ve been mixing paint (i have a tutorial coming for you...
Creating To Share vs. Sharing What You Create
I originally began writing this post to share what I’ve been painting lately....which has been LIFE GIVING. If you’re a regular reader, you know I started playing with painting again last year, and even launched two small collections. But as I sat down to share the...
