This was so creative! I love the idea of making a landscape that looks like trees out of small, dried, plant parts. My students are brilliant! What a lovely piece of art.

This gorgeous piece was painted using sticks, twigs, and a Sweetgum seed. So precious!

Beautiful cumulous clouds! Today I learned that one of my students and I had both captured nearly identical images of these gorgeous clouds the other morning. At left is the photo I took the other day. These cumulous clouds were telling us that snow was coming the next day, and it sure did!

Nature journaling indoors with nature treasures brought in from our winter gardens. Beautiful and fun!

I painted this with concentrated watercolors and brushes made from natural objects. So fun!

Here’s the Gratitude Garland I made. So much fun and so simple, and a great and lovely reminder of what I’m grateful for.

Sock pumpkins! Something old is new again! Something lost has found a new purpose

Here is the result of my "tree slap". Note the paper is cut on the side. That's because I had painted something there before and I wanted to get rid of it. Interesting result!

Check out this Fassett chair, and accompanying knitted pillow. Truly brilliant!

This is a heart done by one of my watercolor students. Isn't it beautiful? We drew the shape in pencil, then we filled it with water, then we dropped in some concentrated watercolors and sat back and enjoyed watching the colors merge, blend, and stay within the boundaries we had defined using only water!

The profound impact of public art. Pictured at left is a photo I took at WaterFire in Providence, Rhode Island last weekend. What an experience!!

Gravity - Here I did a quick study of what happens when you let the paint run in with a wet wash using watercolor. It's interesting what happened here! The bottom portion looks like a forest, and I did that one when the paper was completely saturated. With the top portion, I laid the paint down when the paper was starting to dry - with a very different result! These kind of lightning bolts of color run down the page. One of my students said they looked like Halloween ghosts - can you spot the ghosts??

This is my take on a mandala using watercolor. My theme for this was summer, and here I have featured cicadas and hosta as the central images, as they are such important elements of summer for me!