Art Practice

This week I am in the studio preparing canvases and I thought I would share my process with you. Take a look. I will start with two coats of gesso. I use Liquitex gesso, which can be gloppy, so I thin it down with a little water. The gesso soaks into the canvas and seals…

It’s Sunday and I’m back to talk more about preparing for my show that is coming this summer! What I like to do in the beginning is gather all the shapes and sizes I want to paint on. I love having a variety! When using canvas, I temporarily wrap and staple it to panels. This…

I’m back in the studio and getting ready for an upcoming show. I have a few months to make 15 – 18 paintings, and I thought I’d share my process with you over the coming weeks! Check it out! Today, I’m pulling out all my recent work to get a wide view of everything I…

Happy Sunday! I have a show in July and wanted to share what I do to get started. I’ll be making 15 paintings, and I don’t know what they’ll be, but here’s how I learn. Watch here … I start by looking at recent work in my studio and in my journal. I look for…

Welcome back to the Sunday Vlog! I love making art every day. Working even five or ten minutes in my journal is so fun! I usually don’t have a plan but here’s one way I get things going quickly. Since I use tracing paper as my palette paper, I have a collection of dried colorful…

Welcome back to the Sunday Vlog! As artists, we are often not the best judge of our own work, and it turns out it doesn’t matter! A gallerist will have their own reasons for choosing one painting over another. I used to finish so many paintings (with a title, framing, photographing, etc.) before showing them…