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Eclipse energy. #sketchbook #painting #watercolor

Eclipse energy.

#sketchbook #painting #watercolors

Started my morning painting by the Rio Grande Gorg

Started my morning painting by the Rio Grande Gorge. Prussian Blue was made for these mountains.

#taos #pleinairpainting #painting

I’ve been hosting painting retreats every single y

I’ve been hosting painting retreats every single year since 2008…except this past year. I intentionally took a year off of all my traveling & teaching retreats to focus my energy on selling everything we own & moving to Costa Rica.

Now I’m beyond excited to say my break from retreats is officially over 🎉! I’m on the road again. I woke up this morning in a hotel in Albuquerque, NM and first thing I did was paint.

I will be making my way to Taos this afternoon where I’ll be having my own personal solo retreat for a few days before my UNAPOLOGETIC retreat starts Sunday at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House.

UNAPOLOGETIC is a week long retreat focused on creating unconventional self portraits. It’s going to be delicious.

#travelingartist #paintinginhotels #artretreat #painting

If you’re not a subscriber to my newsletter: PAINT

If you’re not a subscriber to my newsletter: PAINT, then you probably have no idea that my family and I sold EVERYTHING we owned & moved to my husband’s home country of Costa Rica. I’ve been chronicling my adventure in my newsletter since last year.

It has been a dream of mine to live in beautiful Costa Rica ever since I first came here with Hansel over twenty five years ago. We’ve been here for almost two weeks now & I still can’t believe this is actually our home!

I feel so grateful, blessed & excited to now be living, painting, exploring, learning, & healing inside the moist, abundant heart of Mother Nature herself & look forward to sharing more here on Instagram as my journey unfolds.

2026 has been quite a year to navigate — not just with the big move, but I had a major surgery this year too that was life changing. Through all of it, I had zero mental bandwidth to share on Instagram, I but now I’m feeling the itch again — so we’ll see how things go. 😝

The first photo here is of my jungle studio that I am intentionally & with great care designing to support my whole mind, body and soul when I create. (I wrote about the details in today’s newsletter.)

As a family we have our own intentions & reasons for moving..but for me, I am very clear. My biggest intention for moving to Costa Rica is to go deeper into my painting practice than I can ever imagine. Even more than that, I am here to understand creativity at its truest essence.

Costa Rica is wild and untamed. Every inch of this blessed country is oozing with life and creative energy and I come here as a true devotee.

The second photo was from my morning walk with Rocket today. Somebody please pinch me! I feel like I’m in a dream — but I know it’s not, because all of my cells are sizzling!

¡Pura Vida! 🦋🌴🎨💚

#costarica #newbeginning #conniesolerapuravida #painting #creativesource

I was dirt tired. I mean it. Dirt. Tired. But I

I was dirt tired.
I mean it.
Dirt. Tired.
But I had to paint…she couldn’t wait.
She wouldn’t.

The days of waiting, planning, hoping are behind me now.
Heart open. Eyes up.
Solid in my conviction.
Fluid in my approach.

#watercoloronpaper #watercolor #mixedmediapainting #abstractfigurative

Start of a new sketchbook. (Minus the couple pages

Start of a new sketchbook. (Minus the couple pages I tore out too. 😜) #sketchbook #visualjournal #painting #studiopractice

One of the things I’ve gotten really good at as an

I’ve been doing a lot of drawing with ink these pa

I’ve been doing a lot of drawing with ink these past couple weeks. It’s basically the mood I’ve been in. 🖤🏴‍☠️🐈‍⬛

#inkdrawing #drawing #intuitivedrawing #scroll

First painting of 2026. Happy New Year everyone!

First painting of 2026. Happy New Year everyone!

#painting #sketchbook #worksonpaper #firstpainting2026

My birthday was on the 28th & of course I celebrat

My birthday was on the 28th & of course I celebrated with a new sketchbook. Here’s the first piece of not just a new year — but a new decade as well. #sketchbook #visualjournal #painting #worksonpaper

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