If you are an Instagram follower you may have noticed I’ve been posting daily on my feed this month. It’s my art…it just doesn’t look quite like it. Even my mother told me it didn’t look like my stuff. It’s not my usual medium, it’s digital. Specifically, it’s created on the app Procreate on my Read More
Category: Art
The Process of Art – Resin
In Virginia I started experimenting with adding more texture in my paintings. At some point I had the idea of creating layers of depth with resin. I’m not sure where I first saw art resin but it looked promising. Most artwork created with resin uses it either as the art itself through dyes and imbedded Read More
The Process of Art – Watercolor
Watercolor paintings take the least amount of prep work before the actual painting. One of the main aspects is the paper. I also use all types of paper from inexpensive student grade to very expensive large sheets. Most of my sketch type work or paintings I intend to scan are done on less expensive paper. Read More
The Process of Art – Ideas
Artists work in a lot of different methods or processes. Some are exact and meticulous, planning every step of the way. Some are spontaneous and loose, throwing their ideas out into the world and rapidly as they can. My artistic process is somewhere in the middle. Looking for Ideas Like most visual artists, I keep Read More
5 Ways Show Your Love With Art
February is the month of love or the month of proving you love someone by spending a ton of money on one particular day on the calendar. Fancy dinners, boxes of chocolate, beautiful flowers, all these are wonderful…for a little while. By the end of the day, week or month all of those are usually Read More
What I Make My Art With
When you are looking at art in a gallery or on a website, the ‘medium’ is generally a part of the description. For Netted by Perceptions (right), I list this as “Acrylic” meaning it’s an acrylic painting. This conjures an image of me standing in front of my easel with paintbrush in hand painting happily away. Read More
New Studio Tour
In my new home in Virginia, I had to let go of the classroom studio I had in my Texas home for so many years. The room my husband and I chose is a narrow room with a bay window on the first floor. It was meant to be a home office. While my husband Read More
Whoa…Big News
…I’m moving…a long (ish) ways away! My family and I will be relocating to Virginia at the end of this month. This is an exciting move as my family is spread out along the East coast from New York to Florida. This is a daunting move as we’ve had a life here in Texas for 20 years and in our Read More
Etsy Shops…yes that’s Shops, plural!
Short Story Collages, mixed-media, experiments, ACEO/ATCs (Artists Trading Cards) – www.cobaltbluedreams.com (it directs to my Etsy shop) (no longer active, everything is on my website now) Small works, studies for paintings – www.cbdartist.com (no longer active, everything is on my website now) Large works EVERYTHING – www.demolay.com/artwork Sign up to be a Studio Insider to get a fabulous coupon Read More
Review:The Cottonwood Art Festival
This past Sunday my husband and I visited the Cottonwood Art Festival. This has always been one of my favorites in North Texas and this spring it was the best year yet! This is one of the few festivals that offer both a Fall and a Spring show. Most of the time the same artists are Read More