Butterfly in the Garden Print over Gelli Print Circle Recently I have been working on a series of hanging gelli print “scrolls.” I started the series while visiting my husband who was working in Chicago for a month last year. While there, I was itching to paint and ended up impulse buying a big round gelli plate, acrylic paints, and a roll of paper. Gelli Plates are an extremely fun and versatile form of monoprinting. You simply apply some acrylic paint to the plate and then

Ahhh, it feels so good to finally finish this painting and be somewhat happy with it. I’ve been struggling with this canvas for almost 3 years. Thats WAY too long. I started working on this right after I got back from Hawaii. I was inspired by this color palette, and I’m pleased to see that the final painting still has most of those colors. With this 30 Day Painting challenge I took it upon myself to finish the painting – No Matter What! I also had no more fresh canvases and

This is my favorite piece from my Shrine Project that I have been working on tirelessly for the past two weeks. Years ago in the VAC at the University of Colorado I found a small row of fences in a free box. I was immediately drawn to the scale and shape of the fence pieces and made a small set of collages as gifts for my friends at Solstice. Many moons later I am finally pursuing the project I had in mind more deeply. I have been curious to explore themes of childhood, spiri

A long time ago I found an image on the internet of a rainbow unicorn zebra thingy. It was a great picture, but the best part about it was the comment from the artist. It read something along the lines of “new box of crayons… YAY!” Every time I buy a new box of crayons (which is more often then it probably should be) I have a similar feeling. This time I had a really valid reason for buying new crayons. I can’t find mine. They have vanished into my pile of misplaced things th