I love to see how colors and paints will blend together. Instead of thinning my paint beforehand, I started this piece with thick paint on a wet surface, and used a spray bottle to help blend it. The rivers and cracks that formed in the paint as they flowed across the canvas are pretty awesome, […]
This was the year of artsy Christmas presents. I also followed my usual pattern of binge crafting- I hardly ever get anything done except during specified times when I can work for hours on end, usually because I have a deadline. I don’t know why I constantly allow myself to work under this kind of […]
Happy Holidays!! I hope all of you have had a wonderful time with family and friends this December. I have been so frantic to get things done- that’s what happens when you’re a procrastinator like me. This painting I made for my parents for Christmas. I had started working on it a couple months ago, […]
The latest in my series of blue and gold pieces. This one actually reminds me of the first piece I ever created using quilled paper pieces, “Illness”. Though I used different colors, I did lump all my quilled pieces together in one place. It almost feels like there’s some kind of gravitational pull- that the […]
My father is a physics and astronomy professor. I remember growing up, he would frequently take us to the university and let us peek through the large telescopes that were mounted onto the roofs. We had front row seats to solar eclipses, and he would often bring home this big and bulky telescope he had […]
I just got back from a week at the Outer Banks celebrating Thanksgiving with my family. Were spread out all over the country- North Carolina, Florida, West Virginia, Idaho, and Utah. I have one sister in Arizona who couldn’t make it because of her full time missionary work, but other than that, we were all […]