I have so many photos of the girls that feel like pure magic to me.  I want to illustrate all of them, even if we’re not in the correct season.  I tried a light handed bokeh effect.  I’m not as thrilled with how that came out but I think with a different medium it would’ve […]

I’m expanding my offerings and my skill set and wanted a space where it could shine on its own.  Check out Sakaya on instagram.  Let me know what you think!

Inspired by Claude Monet’s Field of Poppies and I love how my lady and her son turned out.  I do want to figure out a better brush and brush stroke to get better floral textures but it’s also difficult working on a small scale.  Speaking of poppies, I need to start gathering my garden materials

This sky is everything! I’m obsessed.  Expect more skies like this.  That is all, thanks!

So I painted the squares with this test color of acrylic paint I had.  For some reason I thought blue would be a fun whimsical color for my windows.  Instead it just heavily crashes with my actual paintings.  Which I guess could be a reality for some folks but is not what I was going

Been working on a few different things but I’ve been painting.  The one thing about oil paints that I wasn’t anticipating to be such a hurdle was the dry time between layers or even after the final painting.  I’m running out of surface area to put the paintings and need to figure out a dry

Okay so I’m not sure if this counts but I’m also trying to create a lot of “rules” around this challenge and keep it free flowing. The girls have a lot of paintings/drawings from their art sessions that I use to create Valentines Day cards, or Greeting cards for their teachers.  I do want to

This is another sketch I created during promtober challenge in October.  I did try to “color correct” this in photoshop but that is an entirely different skill I need to work on.  I enjoyed painting the nest the most. Which I find weird but it was fun.  I used my Daniel Smith watercolors for the

I sketched a few mushrooms scenes early last year and you saw the one I painted and I also have a print for sale (see here).  I originally wanted to say I don’t understand my fascination with mushrooms but that’s not true.  1. They are absolutely delicious 2. They are the homes to fairies and

I’ve had this sketched and waiting for me to do something with it since 2020.  I remember I taped the photo under a piece of watercolor paper on the kitchen window so I could trace the figures.  I so badly want to paint faces, capture character, place crumbs of emotions within the eyes.  But it’s