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note-to-self zine

In our live class last weekend we made two types of zines, and I want to show you one of them. I didn't have a name for it last week, but now that I've sat with mine on my desk for a week I've

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EDI Live: Today! 12pm PST

I'm looking forward to seeing all you Light Tier friends (join us here and come to class!) here in about a half and hour. I mentioned this is yesterday's post but wanted to float it up to the top: we're going to play with

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November 2023: The Inhale

If I turn back two pages in my sketchbook, I find this, dated 10/26/23 and labeled #1. I had a burst of desire that day and thought I'd try for a streak of daily abstract mark making. This spread had taken me me about five minutes

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EDI Live: Nov 18, 12pm PST

Each month, Light Tier members are invited onto a live online painting class where we'll go deeper into the month's practices and ideas. If you'd like to join in, click here. I'd love to see you there! Hello Light Tier friends! Our

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A stance against bombs

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EDI Live: TODAY Oct 21, 12pm PST

Each month, Light Tier members are invited onto a live online painting class where we'll go deeper into the month's practices and ideas. If you'd like to join in, click here. I'd love to see you there! Hello Light Tier friends! Our

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October 2023: Spooky Season

It’s Spooky Season! It’s taken me years to come around to the charm of this time of year, as I’ve never been one to do fear for fun. I’ve been asking people why they like scary music and creepy fall vibes for years now and I

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Back to school supplies

What's better than a fresh box of crayons? Not much. If painting is my practice, buying art supplies is my hobby. And since it can get expensive fast, it's usually worth it to go back and revisit the treasures I've already collected and dig

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EDI Live: Today! 12pm PST

I'm excited to sketch with you today! We're going to be talking about and practicing staying in the moment as work create. Click here for the link to join us! Here are some reference photos we may draw from today:

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This is another moment. Write another poem.

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EDI Live: Sept 23, 12pm PST

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September 2023: Cross-training

In my years as a physical therapist I began to see how art and therapy bleed easily into each other: in both places were tender people who lived with some kind of pain, working gently over time to transform it into something that felt good in their body and allowed

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Stepping around perfectionism

Earlier this month I wrote about stepping around perfectionism instead of tackling it head on. Here's one of my favorite ways to do that: Take 6 or 8 or 10 pieces of small/medium sized paper (I used watercolor paper that I tore down from a large sheet)

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EDI Live, TODAY - reference pics

Hello friends! Here are the reference photos for today's live class. Looking forward to seeing you in about 20 min. Brit These photos are all mine, and you're welcome to use them for study and sketching purposes!

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August 2023: Perfection

When I started Easy Does It almost two years ago, one of the first topics I expected to write about was perfectionism. It was the most commonly cited creativity villain in the messages I had received from followers, which were all variations on: "I want to be an artist,

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EDI Live: Aug 19, 12pm PST

Each month, Light Tier members are invited onto a live online painting class where we'll go deeper into the month's practices and ideas. If you'd like to join in, click here. I'd love to see you there! Hello Light Tier friends! Our

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Value, Part 2

Welcome to Part 2! Let's continue to play with value. Here are some ways to get started: Getting it right: actual gray 5! I tend to mix my middle gray chart darker than it should be. When we look back at this month's first post you

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EDI Live: July 22, 12pm PST

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July 2022: Value, Part 1

Last weekend we went camping near a lake, and I woke up at dawn with my little dog Miko who was absolutely beside herself that we had spent the entire night outside, and were in fact, still outside now at 5AM. She had dreamed all her life of going on

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Art chat

Today I have some creative miscellany for you, the kinds of things that I might go on about if we were getting coffee, chatting and showing each other our sketchbooks. So grab a cup of something nice and let's go! Painted backgrounds Earlier this month I had an

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EDI Live: Update & Reference photo

Hi friends! I'm looking forward to seeing you today. Two things: 1) I had a personal thing come up so I won't be on 10 min early today, but I will be there and ready to start and noon! 2) I'm going to continue

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Zorn Palette

In this month's main post I introduced one of my favorite limited palettes: the Zorn Palette, which is made of a bright warm red (often cadmium red, but I'm using pyrrol red here), yellow ochre and black. You can click here if you want to read

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June 2023: The Selfie 2.0

It's my birthday month, the time each year that I revisit the selfie as a way to spend time with myself and mark the moment. I notice how I'm aging and growing, how I've become sweeter and stronger and more worn in. I also

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EDI Live: June 17, 12pm PST

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Warble: the breath and the line

When I need to slow down, but actual holding-still, breathing-on-purpose meditation or relaxation is too much for me, I draw. Here are some favorites: 1) The breath line. I close my eyes, put my pen on the page and draw upward on the inhale and downward on the exhale. I