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Mother's Day Lavender. 9.5 x 12.5" Watercolor on Kilimanjaro cold press 140lb paper. 2011.

Happy Mother’s Day! This one goes out to all you artist moms struggling to balance your home and kids with your artist career. You can do it!

Here she is, my excuse for being so out of everything for almost half a year. She was born on April 3d, weighing 8lb 3.9oz and 20 inches tall.

She’s a healthy and mostly well-behaved baby (minus last week, when my mother-in-law was visiting. Looks like my kids just automatically become hyper when grandparents are around!) My son had a pretty tough time the first two weeks but seems to be recovering from the shock. He likes to hug and kiss the baby and always runs to the rescue when she’s crying (he even says, “Al rescate!” – Spanish for “to the rescue!” when he does that).

I’m somewhat overwhelmed and trying to keep things low key and slow for now. I would love to have a couple of weeks of just me and the baby. Nevertheless, things are picking up speed…I’ve had several commission inquiries, some Etsy sales, and I’m getting ready to teach more classes in the summer.

For more information about prints, please visit our product info page.

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Read about this painting (including a step-by-step demo) on my blog.

11x14" Watercolor on 140lb cold press paper.

Here is another one of my Christmas commissions, two beautiful little girls who are cousins and live on the opposite sides of the U.S. I painted this in record time – less than a week. As it often happens with my group portraits, it is a composite of several reference images. I enjoyed working in a looser, more “impressionistic” manner, which is also part of the reason why I could finish the portrait in such a short time. The multiple-glaze smooth and “realistic” look requires that the bottom layer is bone dry before applying the next one.

If you are interested  in a custom portrait, go here.

My new website design is up and running (thanks to my wonderful husband ) but will probably be a work in progress for some time. I still need to find a good way for people to shop my greeting/note cards and some logical place to put my artwork that is not for sale (like the sketchbook section). Any ideas? What do you think about my website in general?