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New Art Toolkit Website!
New Art Toolkit website! It’s been a year of big changes! We first moved our Art Toolkit assembly from the back room of our home into a studio workspace, and now we have a new Art Toolkit website....
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Tools For Research: Monitoring the Colony
This is part of a series, read my previous post: Behind the Data: Every Egg, Every Chick I love learning about the tools that different professions use to observe and study our world. Joining biologist...
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Palettes of Place: the Pacific Northwest
I’m excited to announce a new limited-edition series of color collections: Palettes of Place, available now in the Art Toolkit shop. Every region has a unique vocabulary of color, climate, and stories...
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A Closer Look
Stella sketching at Salt Creek, Olympic Peninsula I’ve been thinking about how this time of uncertainty can be magical for my daughter instead of stressful. Like most everyone, our world has shrunk...
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Atmospheric Landscapes Online Workshop
Working on a large, studio watercolor Please join me Saturday, April 18, from 10am-Noon PST, to explore creating atmospheric paintings with a limited palette in my first-ever live online workshop! I’ll...
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Lessons from Expeditions
I was recently asked if anything I’ve learned from expeditions has helped me through this current challenge of pandemic life. Absolutely! First, I appreciate the value of making a plan for the day....
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Back to my Studio
I have a show scheduled at the Jefferson Musem of Art and History in Port Townsend for this fall based on my Cooper Island Witnessing Climate Change Project. The exhibit has been delayed 16 months by...
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Expedition Artists and Science Exploration
I’m thrilled to be a part of an article published on modern-day expedition painting in the Front Matter journal by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Writer Carolyn Beans featured...
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Opening Soon! New Work
I’m so excited to be in the final preparations for my Witnessing Climate Change, 46 Years in the Arctic, exhibition featuring the research of ornithologist George Divoky. In addition to field sketches...
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Exhibit Presentation and Catalog!
Please join me Friday, October 22, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Pacific for a live-streamed conversation from the Jefferson Museum of Art & History in Port Townsend with biologist George Divoky and educator...
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KUOW Radio Interview & Art Toolkit Update
Port Townsend Maritime Center sketch in Moleskine Japanese Album Hi everyone! I realize it’s been a little quiet around here as I’ve been focused lately on developing Art Toolkit. I just looked back...
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Singla Creative Residency
Singla on Arnøya, Norway. Photo by Hanna Viano I’m thrilled to be traveling to Norway this summer for the inaugural Singla Creative Residency, founded by the amazing Hannah Viano and her partner Joe...
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Seattle Sketch Crawl
The crew! Photo courtesy of April Wu. I had such a blast last week sketching in Seattle for an Art Toolkit x TRAVELER’S COMPANY USA sketch crawl with the Seattle Urban Sketchers. ATK x TRAVELER’S CO...
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Sketching with Che & Stella
The three artists! I had a memorable day of sketching last weekend with my dear friend Che Lopez and my daughter Stella. We had a special painting project for a friend and spent the afternoon in a...
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Notes from Norway
With the start of school (our daughter is in first grade now!) I’m settling into my studio and reflecting on my two weeks in Norway this summer. While traveling and with the Singla Creative Residency,...
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Drawing Inspiration Podcast
Podcast recording Last week I had the pleasure of joining artist Mike Hendley on his Drawing Inspiration Podcast. I shared my earliest memories of sketching, my journey as an expeditionary artist, and...
View ArticleWatercolor Fundamentals Workshop!
Hello friends! I’ve been a bit quiet over here lately as I’ve focused on Art Toolkit projects, but am very excited to share a learning opportunity that has been a long time in the making! I love the...
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