Paints, paper, pens, and purses... grab color wherever you can!

Sargent Art sent me a big box full of paints to play with before I present a workshop for them at the National Art Educators Association conference in San Diego next week. When I started doing my bottle installations I dreamed, even prayed (which is probably the same thing), that I could go around the country creating collaborative projects. I forgot about that prayer until recently, after having done installations here in Florida, in Michigan, Maryland, and now in California.

I'm obsessed with Sargent's liquid water colors called Watercolor Magic. I realized that playing with color cheers me up so I played on paper:I love taking a fine point permanent marker and outlining all the little archipelagos the salt blooms create. (far right) Watercolor with salt on good paper can be torn into what ends up looking like little landscapes, then attached to create mini landscapes on note cards. I want to do a workshop on this! By the way, I love Arches paper because it is gorgeous, French, and it has a long tradition ;the company was established in 1492.

I played on the computer:

Made this postcard to take with me to NAEA with my artist statement and bio on the back. Maybe I'll pick up more gigs!

I played with painting tissue paper and newspaper to create a new technique:

 Last but not least, I played with purses! I'm so excited and thankful for my 15 member team and am proud to display this killer collection.