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
May 26, 2015 – Caring about caring
[I wrote this post while on an airplane to Kauai over the weekend. I’m posting it from here, while listening to the Hawaiian birds and feeling the balmy air on my skin. I am taking a break from recording an audio version while on vacation. I’ll resume when I’m...
May 19, 2015 – Windows to the soul
For some reason, I’ve been really resistant to wearing glasses to read, even as my eyes are going through the aging process that affects nearly all of us – I’m becoming far-sighted. I put off wearing drug-store cheaters to read as long as possible – until sometime...
May 12, 2015 – Failing and recovering
My world-class commute! When I came back from my stay in Paris in 1996, I settled back here in a house in San Anselmo (in Marin) and worked in San Francisco. I either took the ferry across the bay to the Ferry Building or the bus across the Golden Gate Bridge. Not...














