I'm thrilled to be sharing about one of my favorite topics: color. I want to focus specifically on how colors compare to each other, because it's often the relative shift between two colors that matters more than the exact colors. I felt that it would be easier to demonstrate this

It's 2023! I have so many things I'm excited to share with you this year. We're going deeper and wider and I'm so looking forward to getting to know you all more and learn together. I'm also energized because New Years is a celebration of beginning, which is, as you

Winter is here! We had our first little bit of snow at least, and I feel the shift in my body - dark, short days, and the pull to be inside, in the warmest spot I can find. I'm noticing the way my approach to making art changes throughout the

I haven't really painted in the past six weeks, at least not in an expressive, personal way. Looking back in my sketchbook for June pages there are just 3 diagrams that I made for the shop. My last free sketching page is from May 21!

Every June I paint a self-portrait for my birthday. It's a way to spend time with myself, notice how I'm changing, and knit that together with how I'm evolving as an artist, making it into a physical thing that, too, will begin to age. Now I have a little collection.

In Making Comics, Lynda Barry asks: how old do you have to be to make a bad drawing? This brilliant question catches on all the snags in our tangled thoughts about good art and who gets to make it. And if we let it, it dissolves them right out. I

Years ago I had a yoga instructor who would start every class in child’s pose or another restful place, and make sure we knew: “this is always available to you. You can come back here any time during the practice.” I would take that invitation seriously, sometimes spending half

I began making art when I was 30. Well, I had taken an art class in 4th grade too, and I also had a book about how to draw a Mickey Mouse. But I feel that I was still a genuine beginner (lopsided stick-figures and all) in 2016 and that