My New Coloring Calendar is here!

So very excited to show you my new BLANK ready to color and make it your own calendar! They are in my Etsy shop and ready to ship NOW!  Color one for yourself and give one to a friend. The calendars come in a resealable sleeve so you could even color one for someone else and give it as a gift to a non-coloring friend. Is there such a person? Perhaps. Have a color-filled day y'all! (psst:also comes with a coloring postcard as a bonus gift!)

tuesday pattern: bulb

Thinking patterns today - while finishing up some drawings for a couple of projects ... And this one may turn into a carved block! Stay tuned!

Labor Day

Labor day is always depressing for me. Not to be a drag but we seriously just get used to the amazing weather here in New Hampshire and BOOM it's labor day. So to counteract all this negativity I give you a new pattern that cheers me up. Olives. A great food. Great as an oil. Makes a martini a martini and a muffeletta a muffeletta. YUM. Fall fall go away come again some other day.

Sneek peek at my upcoming book!

So here's a little video we made of my upcoming book: ART CAMP! I am so pleased with this book as it is exactly the book I wanted when I was seven years old. It fits easily in your hand - is chockerblock filled with four step projects that most kids can manage by themselves - and uses simple, found and recycled materials to create beautiful art! Coming soon -- October 1, 2015! Preorder a signed copy here at my book site!

Mixed Media II is here!

My new e-course is coming in September and for JUST THIS WEEKEND I am running a special on it! Read all about it here!

It is going to be a blast of thirty days filled to the brim with ways to use - work on and with PAPER!
Absolute beginners welcomed and seasoned artists will find new methods and materials to enrich their work.

 Just like in my live workshops and classes you will be gently encouraged to create work inspired by exciting processes, your own mark making, nature, color, daily life, familiar and yet to be discovered inspiration!

 We will go into my studios and I'll share my rituals and ways of bring art into your daily life!

Printmaking processes - (think block printing and gelatin printing) + Surface design techniques will be a big part of this class and you will find yourself immersed in you OWN mark making and connecting with the style deep inside you.
All through PLAY! So join us now!

Weekend Workshop: This weekend in Kittery Maine

Gelatin printing is a joyous thing!

The Barn!!

Inside the barn ...

 I am thrilled to be partnering with my friend and publisher Rebecca Emberley this weekend to teach in her barn studio and dreamy gardens! I'll be  teaching gelatin printing and painting abstractly out of doors and from that intuitive place. Rebecca will be teaching journaling and all the info about this two day weekend is right here.

There are a couple of seats left so sign up today to join in ... right here

Sketchbooks and Patterns

leaf dance 7/2015

Lately I have been working on patterns with watercolor/gouache/ink. I imagine what they would look like in fabrics and clothing as well as home dec textiles. Perhaps a duvet cover. I'll post them from time to time here and set them into my website soon as well! Happy midsummer!