View fullsize Exploring a marsh island in NC with my family last week! Lots of inspiration - hoping to make some time for new paintings soon! #outdoorinspiration
View fullsize Finally set up a makeshift studio in the kitchen and made some time to paint yesterday! Shed comes this week, so here's to the guest room getting cleaned out soon so I can set up my studio for real!!! 🤞#creativespace #artistlife #backatit
View fullsize First painting in a very long time. What can I say, but that life happens sometimes. Wood panel illustration for the next @locationgallery show! #doitfortheprocess #carveouttimeforart #artofinstagram #calledtobecreative #illustration #mixedmedia #art
View fullsize Ready to varnish!! #doitfortheprocess
View fullsize This week's painting projects....ink and watercolor wood panel painting exhibition coming up! #doitfortheprocess
View fullsize Had to take a little break to work on other projects these past two weeks, but I'm back, and I'm still staring at this sunset marshscape that's been on the easel for too long now. I can't tell you how excited I am to get started on some new pieces! #
View fullsize Yesterday's #100daysofmarksonwood was spent putting finishing touches on the 18x24 inch marsh scene I've been working on. I like to draw over top of my acrylic paintings. You can't see the graphite from a distance, but it adds interest up close! #the
View fullsize 8/100 of my #100daysofmarksonwood - started yesterday and completed today. Graphite, watercolor, and charcoal on a 4x4 inch wood panel. #the100dayproject
View fullsize More work on this 18x24 panel yesterday. She's almost finished! #ontheeasel
View fullsize Yesterday's #100daysofmarksonwood - working on some interesting clouds. To clarify my #the100dayproject and numbering system for the minis: I am not making minis on the weekends or days when I work on larger paintings (unless I just really want to).
View fullsize Day 7/100 completed in the cockpit of our sailboat. ⛵️#100daysofmarksonwood #the100dayproject #100daysofpaintings
View fullsize Day 6/100. Yesterday's graphite, watercolor, and charcoal mini. #100daysofmarksonwood #the100dayproject #100daysofpaintings
View fullsize After a majorly distracted day of "messing up" the water, I went back the next day and nailed it! Proof that patience, persistence, and focus really matter - and also that artists don't lose their abilities overnight. 👊 Cloud reflection de
View fullsize Art is an act of patience and a suspension of judgement. Lots of work to do yet on this one, but it's getting closer bit by bit. #doitfortheprocess
View fullsize While I didn't make a mini yesterday, I did make lots of marks on this 18x24 wood panel marshscape that's on the easel right now. Detail shot for day 6/100 of #100daysofmarksonwood. #the100dayproject
View fullsize Color mixing for the latest marshscape. 🌴 #doitfortheprocess
View fullsize Day 5/100. Yesterday's beach doodle. #100daysofmarksonwood #THE100DAYPROJECT #100daysofpainting
View fullsize Day 4/100 (from last week). I decided I am making weekends optional since I usually work on bigger pieces over the weekend and also because I like to spend as much time outside as possible with my husband. 🌎☀️⛵️ #100daysofmarksonwood
View fullsize "When it is working, you go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it is all about." -Keith Haring. Feeling so inspired lately, and I suspect it m
View fullsize Palmetto inspiration. Can't wait to start on a new marshscape painting this weekend! #nothingisordinary