Well, it’s July already. I’m still thinking it’s April 🙂

Some inventory updates are:

Price drop on the 2021 Full year quarterly calendar

Price drop on the 3rd quarter 2021 calendar

Animals! Collection of Coloring Pages is now available in my Etsy shop.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve made art. Doodling on birthday cards to family members, drawing cats and horses in Strathmore notebooks, and sketching ball point pen still-lifes of hands and feet in the margins of my Mead spiral notebooks during class. In high school, college, and beyond I made time for art on the sides of my life, until I didn’t. I began to forget about painting and making things.

Parenting small children reintroduced me to art.

One day in 2016, my first child and I were in the basement and looking for something to do. He was the age of hungry exploration, determined to find an activity with or without me. So I rummaged through boxes of tools and toys before finding my watercolor palette and paints from my youth. Watercolor, a medium that either painters love or hate. Watercolor, the easiest kind of paint to cleanup. Watercolor, a standard paint medium for children. I started to watercolor with my toddler, often working on our own projects together with our own paints, sometimes for only minutes at a time before the child was ready for something else. I swished my brush clean in a cup of water, moving onto the next playtime activity, and ready to pick up painting when we returned to our basement studio.

Five years later, I find myself rotating between projects and mediums. I’ve recently learned the basics of creating vector art and also rediscovered my sculpture work. I find for me, having fallow time is regenerative and practical. And children are great reminders of this for me.