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In Between & Next To Last

Drawings | Mixed-Media on Found Book Pages

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In the last few years my practice has been shiftin

In the last few years my practice has been shifting & morphing in major ways. Ive become really interested in ideas and creating pieces that can help express these ideas. As a result, the pace of my practice has slowed down. I pay attention to exactly “what” I’m doing & “why” I’m doing it a lot more. This piece is such a great example of that.

#painting #workinprogress #wip #studiopractice #sketchbook #contemporarypainting #mixedmediaart

I was hunting for something in the studio & this r

I was hunting for something in the studio & this random little paint sketch-a-rooey fell out of one of my old sketchbooks. I can tell it’s from mid-2024 because of the bowl of stars in it.

The end of 2023 through most of 2024 I kept putting that bowl of stars in tons of my pieces. I even had a very magical thing happen around this bowl of stars when I was in Oaxaca in 2023 too. If you know, you know. 😘

What’s interesting is that the big piece I’m working on now — I lightly drew one of those bowls in it too. It’s not a main part of my piece at all — it’s just a whisper. But it’s still there.

I paint very intuitively, so I’m always paying attention what’s showing up (or not) in my visual language. I’m always curious to how some images & motifs show up & then fade away & sometimes reappear years later. I love that. I love that painting has a life of its own & I’m the keeper of the language that’s spoken there.

#painting #paintwisdomstudio #paintsketch #paintstudy #sketchbook #studiopractice #intuitivepainting #mixedmediaart

It’s 7:04 AM as I type this & I’ve been in the

It’s 7:04 AM as I type this & I’ve been in the studio since 4:30 AM working on my big mamarama painting. (You get a peek of it at the end of this reel.)

After I was finished, I sat here staring at my painting, then my vision wall, then my painting again & I felt inspired to shoot this reel.

For me, my paintings don’t exist in a bubble — I feel they are constantly in conversation with other pieces I create, old pieces, future pieces, pieces made by other artists, things I observe in the world, & I guess most of all with me.

💙🎨🌀#visionwall #studiopractice #studioview #workinprogress #painting #contemporarypainting #paintsketch #mixedmediaart

I just spent the last two hours in a co-working (m

I just spent the last two hours in a co-working (more like “co-painting”) Zoom call with the artists in my BOW program.

If you’re wondering — BOW is part two of my mentorship program where we spend nine months creating a body of work (BOW) that we then exhibit in a public show in the Summer. I get in the trenches & make a BOW right alongside them as well.

This is my third year hosting BOW & boy do I feel lucky!! I love my mentorship program & being able to support other artists in this deep way.

And oh yeah — this is what I was working on today. My big painting that’s a total work in progress still.

#wip #painting #contemporarypainting #studiopractice #wip #workinprogress #phoenixartist

I have eight 5 foot tall canvases that have been p

I have eight 5 foot tall canvases that have been patiently hanging around my studio waiting & waiting & waiting for me. Last year I had a few false starts with them where everything ended up feeling kind of forced and ultimately blah. I think that’s because I was trying to recreate a sketch — I don’t work that way & I should have known better. Rather, I approach painting as both a conversation & an actual journey — where I feel my way through & allow the painting to guide me.

Painting this large has been so dang delicious because it’s such a slower process. I spent all day today just working on this one part of the painting — really getting to know the faces that are emerging forward & taking time to be with the painting — not just zip through it.

Plus, I gotta admit — I love & feel ridiculously intimidated at the same time by how much terrain there is in front of me — but that’s how I know I’m on the right path. If my process isn’t well seasoned with fear,what’s the point!

#painting #workinprogress #wip #studioview #studiopractice #contemporarypainting #contemporarypainter #thisartistslife

Just a good ol’ work in progress & my crazy obse

Just a good ol’ work in progress & my crazy obsession with blue. 💙🌀🩵

#wip #painting #worksoncanvas #contemporarypainting #intuitivepainting #studiopractice #phoenixartist

Split Mixed Media on paper | 9” x 12” | From m

Split
Mixed Media on paper | 9” x 12” | From my ANCHOR series

#painting #mixedmediaart #studiopractice #paintingpractice #worksonpaper #paintingonpaper #blue #intuitivepainting #contemporarypainting

Dropping Anchor | Mixed media on paper | 12” x 9

Dropping Anchor | Mixed media on paper | 12” x 9”

#paintingonpaper #worksonpaper #mixedmediaart #painting #intuitivepainting #studiopractice #paintingpractice #blue

Been doing a little spring cleaning in the studio

Been doing a little spring cleaning in the studio — including hanging new work up on what I call my “vision wall”. My “vision wall” is not to be confused with a “vision board”. This is not about manifesting dreams, but rather about having an ongoing conversation with my work — which sometimes kinda feels dreamy for sure 🌀

#studiopractice #artstudio #studiolife #painting #paintingonpaper #worksonpaper #mixedmediaart #contemporarypainting #blue

Yesterday I made a little reel of my sketchbook ri

Yesterday I made a little reel of my sketchbook right before I painted this little diddy. It’s not only my first painting since I arrived home from being in Cleveland unexpectedly for two weeks — but it’s also the first painting in my ANCHOR sketchbook.

ANCHOR is my upcoming online workshop that starts Monday. I’m really looking forward to it. 💙🌀💧⚓️

#painting #mixedmediaart #worksonpaper #paintingonpaper #studiopractice #intuitivepainting #contemporarypainting #sketchbook #visualjournal

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