If I can't be a dragon-whisperer, can I at least have a talking dog?
October is almost here, which means it's time to get ready for Inktober. In 2018, I was busy putting a house on the market and moving in October, and I still managed to draw every day thanks to Inktober. Here are my seven tips for anyone worried about failure. A drawing from last year's Inktober.... Continue Reading →
Drawing practice is a lot more fun when you can use color.
Making my first bed quilt helped me deal with death, loss, and divorce.
Getting stuck with pink and brown inspired me to make an abstract interpretation of an Entwife.
It's easy to think our beautiful creations are a waste of time, but they're not.
How a design class for quilters taught me an important lesson regarding advice-giving.
After a month of drawing orchids, I've decided it's time to focus on painting with watercolors. As soon as I had the idea, my inner perfectionist started making a list, convinced that I must study hard and learn everything there is to know about watercolors in order to do it right. Fortunately, I came across... Continue Reading →
My month of drawing orchids every day is over already! I drew 26 of the 28 days. I learned a lot from this challenge, but here are the five biggest lessons from Daily Orchids. Orchid and buds, study. Sketch by Kit Dunsmore My drawings aren't always as bad as I think they are at the... Continue Reading →
Back in 1999, I took a quilting class with Ruth B. McDowell to learn how to design pictorial pieced quilts. At the time, I was struggling to find a way to make representational quilts without using applique. While I learned what I hoped to in her class, making the quilt I designed taught me some... Continue Reading →
