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
Blossoming Hope in Haircolor Training Center
This is from my uncle who is one of the foremost teachers of haircolor in the country: "If its possible your work keeps getting better. Your picture I have hanging in the training center. We have a lot of people going in and out, all love the painting. It puts a smile...
Peonies in a vase – a new one started yesterday
It's really hard to see the pencil drawing in the camera if taken of the whole thing. It's a large one (41x29). Peonies on the window sill at my folks house - the house where I grew up. Love the light - of course!
Time for a new palette
Spent the better part of yesterday's painting group deciding on colors for a new palette. It's been time for one, the old one has served me so well, to make over 50 paintings. But it's falling apart. Fresh new pigments! Both afraid to start messing it up and can't...











