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
January 6, 2015 – Living “pink” – as I see it
When I first started to write these posts three months ago, fearing I’d need ideas to write each week, I hunted around in my computer for things I’d already written and I ran across this in an email I’d sent to my friend Vicki about a year ago: My success and...
December 30, 2014 – My edge – exquisite softness for myself
In 1998, when the movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out, Joe and I went to see it in the theater. It was getting rave reviews, it was Spielberg, a great cast – everyone was seeing it, so we did too. About ten minutes into the beach-landing scene I found myself...
December 23, 2014 – Blessed by Black Labs
Joe and I have had three black Labradors – all boys. Well the first one, Bud, was really Joe’s dog. He was nine when Joe and I started dating - when I lived in a house that had white carpet and a white sofa. It was my girly-girl house. My dad called it my little...














