We’re heading to a bunch of national parks this summer and I started a new accordion fold journal to document the journey! It’s an A6 size Hahnemühle Zig Zag Book and it’s so fun! So far we’ve been to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Can’t Read more…
There’s nothing like new art supplies to spark your creativity, am I right? This summer I’m going to be visiting a bunch of National Parks, and I wanted to up my pen game so I got some to try! Here they are, plus some waterproof inks: I chose these pens Read more…
You read that right: we sold our house in Austin, Texas to travel full time in our converted Ford Transit camper van! I’m so dang excited! I keep pinching myself to make sure it’s not all just a dream. I started a blog over on Substack and I’d love it if you Read more…
Hey, friends! So I updated my palette — hoping this is the last one for a while because we’re going to be traveling full time in our converted camper van and it will be hard to get paint on the road. We like to go to remote places, and sometimes Read more…
All the details on my kit for the 2024 Nature Spots Challenge!
Hello, friends! It’s been a little quiet around here because I’ve been super busy, but hopefully things will slow down now. Here’s the story: we loaded up our converted Ford Transit cargo van and left home in Austin, Texas back on May 31st to set off on a long road Read more…
I’d like to invite you to join me for the second annual Nature Spots Challenge! It was so much fun last year that I just had to host it again! It’s super simple to play along: just get outside and do a nature spot a day in January. If you’re Read more…
What are nature spots, you ask? They’re spots of color to mark your observations while out in nature. Be it a flower, butterfly, amazing rock formation or magnificent mountain, nature spots are a great way to document a subject without taking up too much time. Fill up a journal to Read more…
What do I mean by desert green? Feast your eyes on the cacti and agaves below to see: Did you spot the baby saguaro? :) This opaque dusty green really used to trip me up when I first got started with watercolors. But not anymore! I found some key colors Read more…