What is Creativity?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams 

If you don't know who Scott Adam is I am sure you are familiar with his work.He is  an American cartoonist, creator of the Dilbert comic strip

I used to think Dilbert was living my life that was in the way back machine and before I decided to move my life to next level and work at my art full time.

Snacks in my office/studio you bet and coffee all the time. All nigher yep and I love them. So no more Dilbert life he's on his own and the studio cats and I are laughing ourselves fuzzy with happiness.

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quotes to make you think

"Go not to the object; let the object come to you," (Henry David


 Thoreau) or "There is no art without contemplation," 


I am always thinking and reading. I listen to audio books while  

paint to get just a little more out of my day. There is never 

enough time to do all. I find ways so  that I can stretch my 

day where I can.

I let my watercolors dry between glaze coats while I'm on 

the computer.

What do you do to add just a little more value to your day?To 

make the object come to you?


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The Art Sprit

I am always amazed when I wake up in the morning and go to daily painters web site or daily paint works on how many artist had the same idea of what to paint that day but in how differently each handle their idea. I think there are many ways to paint an orange as there are oranges and artist combined.

So do not paint what you have seen and think should be your inspiration but be yourself.

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Oh, Bad Delilah

The simple fact is that people will become loyal, trusting potential buyers of you and your work when they know they are dealing with a human, especially one with flaws like them.

When you show more of who you are, you are morphing into the product. The product is not just your work and your skills. You are the full package. And that is what people invest in – their time and their money.

I know this but I don't share. I need to do more of this; if you are an artist like me you also need to do this. So today I am making a change a commitment to share more. To show more of the process and the frustration of being a one woman show. The creator,the marketer ,the book keeper,and the self motivator. 

Have a bright and sunny day and paddle your way into a great year of painting

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Art is Imagination at its best

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." (Albert Einstein)


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Life is short

"Ars longa, vita brevis" "Art is long, life is short." (Hippocrates)



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Fly with your Dream

Tony Anony - From the Dreams category:
We beautiful creatures born in mystery / Fly best on wings of dreams. (Tony Anony)



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Demo of Beach Swimmer

The Swimmer

About This Painting:

The Swimmer
10x8 inch on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)

Price: $200 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $200 USD plus $12 USD s/h

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Fun Products for the Arts

Product of the Month Hey watercolor painters, did you know that you can permanently fix your watercolor paintings?


This may not be overly important if you frame them under glass, but if you are like me you may want to mount them on a canvas or a wood panel. If you need a good fixative that is non-aerosal and made with all natural ingredients, try SpectraFix. 

I use it in a pump bottle with a couple of light coats on the painting. No odor, no mess - it just works. You can use it on watercolor paintings, pastel, graphite, charcoal, colored pencils or nearly anything else. Give it a try and see how you like it. Pump bottle of Spectra-Fix

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Painting Demo

10 x 8 inch

oil painting

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Humor for the New Year

The Four Stages of life: 

 1.'You believe in Santa Claus

2. You don't believe in Santa Claus

3.You are Santa Claus

4.You look like Santa Claus'

Santa Chicken

About This Painting:
Santa Chicken
12x9 watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper.

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $100 USD plus $10 USD s/h
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Painting Demo of Peaches

Peaches and Crab Apples

About This Painting:

Peaches and Crab Apples
8x10 oil painting on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Panting Demo of an Orange Still life in Oils

Today I am doing a painting demo of an Orange. The still life is simple and the painting has lots of think paint and great warm colors.

Orange Still Life No. 6

About This Painting:

Orange Still Life No.6
8x10 inch oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

How to Purchase:

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Apples and Grapes painting Dmeo

Today I have a painitng demo of apples and Grapes for you. I hope you enjoy it.

Apples and Grapes still life

About This Painting:

Apples and Grapes
Oil painting on canvas panel 8x10

Media: oil painitng

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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The Fear of Making It.

“The paralysis that comes from the fear of making a mistake is often the mistake…” 
 - Jason Hirschorn,
As they say, just do it. I always tell myself if I paint it they will come. It's my field of dreams.



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Oil Painting demo Landscape with Sunflowers

Today I am painting a field of sunflowers. In this quick over view you will see how I work from back ground to foreground. I hope you enjoy this video.
The painting is done in oils on an 8x10 canvas panel.

About This Painting:

Sunflower Field
8 x 10 oil painting on panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

How to Purchase:

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Painting demo

Today's painting demo is of a mountain landscape with flowers blooming in the spring.

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If You've never failed you have never lived

With the Holidays coming up  like a fright train coming around the bend and I know you have so much to do just like me, it can be so over whelming. You feel like everyone else does it better, gets more done, and just seems to win when you fail.




Fell better now? I know I do.


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Drawing the head demo

If your like me and drawing or painting the head is difficult here is a quick tutorial on how to draw the head. I can always draw it when the person is looking at mme but how do you do it when they are turned and you only see part of one of the yes ? How do you get that head tilt right?

I've been working on a painting for days try to get the shadows and tilt of the head just right. So I know how difficult it can be.

I hope this helps.

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Creating art is not a bus ride to easy street.

Creating art is not a bus ride to "easy street".


What's your BIG idea? What challenges and excites you? What takes your breath away, keeps you up at night, makes you smile all day long?

Sometimes it's "distant and far away," but it's in there! Find it, dust it off, honor it. Pursue it! People will join you and things will unfold in amazing ways. Dream bigger dreams and take action. It's what makes life worth the living!

But here’s the thing: starting a business is always a lot harder than you think. More important is that you must think of your art as a business.You just need to know that it is, so that when you do go through harder moments, you can tell yourself that that is to be expected, and so you drive through it.

Successful creatives push through the pain because they know it is ‘supposed’ to be hard work. Then the rewards really do come.


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