Welcome
Meet Cara
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.

podcast
Watercolor Conversations
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.

art stories
Journal
February 2, 2016 – Fifty shades of love
Nearly every Sunday, my folks host a dinner for us – their four kids and our families. My dad plans and cooks – with help from us. And lately, my mom has been making homemade bread and rolls - there’s hardly a better smell, than that of yeast bread baking in the oven....
January 26, 2016 – Awareness and attention are EVERYTHING!
A small painting I started so I could attend to my painting commitment while I traveled. This is the result of four painting sessions - two of them in airports! Somewhere along the way – a really, really long time ago - an idea got ahold of me that the most important...
January 19, 2016 – Left and right brain – not what we thought!
Using my left brain to make the "hearts", seeing the interesting shapes with my right. There are a couple of themes that have taken ahold of this life of mine – one of them is a seemingly insatiable curiosity, about how we work as humans, why we do what we do, how our...














