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
November 25, 2014 – The matter of mattering
When I was in college, I worked summers setting tile - on kitchen counters, around bathtubs, floors, even the stalls of an office building restroom. My biggest job was laying heavy 12”x12” pavers on the floors of a home in Paradise Cay in Tiburon. It took many days...
November 18, 2014 – When in doubt, cook!
My dad took over cooking our family dinners when I was in junior high. My mom started two businesses and he was teaching at a special high school, where the kids had a shorter than normal day. He found himself with more time and picked up cooking dinner. He shopped...
November 11, 2014 – Can we learn faster and easier?
I wish I could go back to my 13 year old self to ask her why she decided, as a high school freshman, to take French. I don’t remember if it was a lark, or if there was something deeper. In any case, my teacher, Monsieur Terando sparked in me a love of languages,...














