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I am obsessed by color. I am a sucker for the drama of striking light. I keep being drawn to the lush fullness of fruit. I’m soothed by looking at flowers. I think food can be as beautiful as anything else. I want only the simplicity of watercolor – painting pure pigment on cotton paper. I love to make these paintings.

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For four years I faithfully wrote weekly journal entries for my blog.  Now and then I go back to what I’ve written and think that some of this huge body of  content could be given new life – but the impulse was to use my speaking voice this go-round.

Watercolor Conversations with Cara Brown is the result.  I am re-visiting some of these journal entries – sharing the stories, seeking, and inspiration in my written words – along with whatever else occurs to me to say at this point in time. 

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February 23, 2016 – One of us flies away

February 23, 2016 – One of us flies away

It was almost three years ago when I got a voicemail message from someone who was looking for an art class, an art group – a regular place to paint. She’d just moved up to Marin from Huntington Beach, in the LA area, where she had a watercolor group that she’d been...

February 16, 2016 – Taking a breath of self-love

February 16, 2016 – Taking a breath of self-love

The candy hearts done, I'm back on a painting I started for the Saturday class on painting water in November. And I’ve got plenty of this self-criticism going on. With some parts of paintings it’s noisier inside than others. For me, it’s organic textures like the...

February 9, 2016 – Photos or life? We get to decide

February 9, 2016 – Photos or life? We get to decide

Just about done. I need to tweak some of the lettering here and there. I'm calling it simply "Dream" The very first time I painted in watercolor, I painted from life. It was a blue Dutch iris in that first Saturday class, I took with my mom. From there, I painted a...