Working in stages

Working in stages

When I have taught drawing and painting classes, one of the most revelatory things for people is that I don’t start a painting by drawing right on my good watercolor paper—not at first, anyway. I start with pencil sketches, which I typically do on tracing paper. I...
Mother bees

Mother bees

In the two years I spent working on “Look Closer”, I thought a lot about mothering. Part of the reason it took me so long to complete the painting was my own mothering duties, when I had both my young children home full time during the pandemic and was still doing my...
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