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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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May 5, 2015 – Color is life

May 5, 2015 – Color is life

Velda's palette after painting a recent Friday group. It was a painting in itself! It’s no secret to any of you that I am pretty much obsessed by color.  Looking back it started pretty early.  Like probably most of us, growing up I had coloring books and Crayola...

April 28, 2015 – A home for the unwanted

April 28, 2015 – A home for the unwanted

I just finished another painting and part of me can barely stand to look at it and call it mine. This part of me worries that I got the shadows on the rose murky, the yellow is too intense and brassy.  It tells me parts of the leaves are clumsily painted and the...

April 21, 2015 – Digging for treasure

April 21, 2015 – Digging for treasure

In the past week I’ve been clearing out.  Yesterday I went through the drawers at my husband’s contracting office of “my” files that were stored there.  I went through all the colored (!) folders and tossed two drawers-full of paper I’ll never need or use again.  This...