Hello Hello! My mind is filled with curriculums and dreams because I’m filming my first online class (hopefully) by December! Woohoo! I’ve been teaching in person classes for a few years now and I love it, but am so excited to try this new medium, well a new medium for me.I have so many class ideas rollin around in my head, but there is one I’m obsessed with and from talking with folks I believe you’re going to love it too. This class is a deep dive into dreams and painting them in a mixed media style in an art journal. Layered and luscious these art journal spreads will evoke the feelings you had when you were visiting this place while you slept. I can’t wait for you to be a part of it! Let me know in the comments if this kind of class gets your creative juices bubbling-I’d love to know! This image … Keep Reading…

I’m writing a story about a girl who dreams of maps. She doesn’t know it yet, but the maps are of real places, and even locations for lost treasure. I’m drawing the pictures first from a simple outline of the plot which is bringing a lot of interesting discoveries to light. It’s like the story is unfolding on the paper as I paint. It’s so fun and a little spooky, which I love! ‘Building a Mystery‘ if you will – thank you Ms. Mclachlan. A deeper dive into what I mean is when I finished the first illustration of Magdalena I realized I had painted a big skeletal hand which wasn’t part of the outline at all. I just sort of started painting it and thinking that this hand is the ‘delivery system’ of all these maps to Magdalenas’ dreams-make sense? Kind of like the connector between their world to our world. I’m not entirely … Keep Reading…