summer plans
Summer starts next week! The kids will soon be done with school and we will begin our crazy summer adventure. I'm taking them to visit...
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Jessica
Jun 11, 20181 min read
plein air painting
I have been painting plein air this spring while the kids take horseback riding lessons. Plein air painting means painting outside. It's...
Jessica
Jun 4, 20181 min read
portrait painting
This semester in painting class we have been working on tackling the portrait. Portrait painting is so difficult and it's not something I...
Jessica
Apr 30, 20181 min read
travel adventures
My family and I just got home from our latest travel adventure to southern France. It was an unbelievably beautiful vacation filled with...
Jessica
Apr 5, 20181 min read
Abstractify
I started a course in March called Abstractify by Tara Leaver. I've made my way through the first week and I am having a blast. I can...
Jessica
Mar 2, 20181 min read
painting challenge complete
I completed my 30-paintings-in-30-days challenge this week!! I had so much fun painting flowers for 30 straight days. What a fabulous...
Jessica
Feb 18, 20181 min read
painting challenge update
This month is flying by!! I am working hard on my 30-in-30 challenge. You can see the paintings daily on instagram or facebook. I've been...
Jessica
Jan 15, 20181 min read
podcast interview
Last week I was interviewed by the amazingly talented Molly O’Riley for her Darling Rage Nation podcast. You guys. I was so excited to...
Jessica
Jan 12, 20181 min read
painting challenge update
I am officially changing my 15-in-30 painting challenge to a 15 in 2018 challenge. Or a 15 in 365. However you want to look at it. I have...
Jessica
Jan 4, 20182 min read
painting process
Happy New Year! I started my 15-in-30 painting challenge on New Years Day and finished the first painting this morning, January 4th. Some...
Jessica
Dec 20, 20171 min read
year-end update
This has been a crazy year - from political marches and protests, to traveling around with the kids. I am so grateful for everything I...
Jessica
Nov 21, 20171 min read
gift ideas
Do you have a hard time picking gifts for people? I have the best idea ever and I'm only slightly biased. I truly believe that paintings...
Jessica
Nov 17, 20171 min read
palette knife painting
In my painting class this fall I have been pushed to start painting with my palette knife. It has been such a great experience! It's so...
Jessica
Oct 14, 20171 min read
watercolor recap
It's half-way through October and I'm still recovering from September! What a month. I completed 30 small watercolor paintings in 30 days...
Jessica
Sep 21, 20171 min read
loosening up
When I decided to do another 30-day painting challenge I chose to switch mediums. I had never used watercolors before in any consistent...
Jessica
Sep 7, 20171 min read
watercolor challenge
This month I am working on another 30-day challenge. To make it interesting I chose to switch to a new medium - watercolors! This has...
Jessica
Jun 19, 20171 min read
up and running
Hello! I've been busy - varnishing paintings, adding wire for hanging, naming paintings (ugh), and signing paintings (yay!). And now...
Jessica
Jun 15, 20171 min read
local art show
Three of my paintings will be hanging in a local art show this summer! If you're in the Boston area you should come and see them. They're...
Jessica
Jun 7, 20171 min read
challenge complete
I completed my 30 day painting challenge. It did end up taking me longer than 30 days but life tends to get in the way sometimes! I had a...
Jessica
May 22, 20171 min read
switching gears
Remember when I started the 30 day painting challenge and I called it a seascape challenge? Well, things changed. On day 14 I didn't want...
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