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December 5, 2025

That's a Wrap

It is common to reflect at this time of year on how quickly it has passed. One helpful method I use to track where the year has gone is to review the photos on my phone, organized by month. I can see where my time has gone, what I did, and get insight into my experiences and accomplishments. This year has been particularly eventful as I conclude my 25-year teaching career. I plan to elaborate further in an upcoming blog post focused on a comprehensive year-end review.

New Work

Streets of CDMX

I love to combine my travel photos with my textured acrylic painting. I was just in Mexico City, CDMX, and during one of my walks I discovered a wall that was covered in old torn posters and announcements. I just love those textures and I combined it with some of my acrylic painting and I love how it turned out.

New Art

Mystery Mountains

I marbled papers, painted fabrics, embossed some elements and put it all together in an abstracted landscape. This piece is on paper and ready to ship so you can have it framed to fit your decor.

Stay tuned

I created this transfer class earlier this year that was part of a teaching package Mixed Media Master Class with many other instructors. I will be offering this class as a stand alone soon. If you missed the limited time that it was offered, this will be your chance to learn transfers with me. You will be creating all of these transfers.

Final Art Retreat-please join me

Travel is the best inspiration and making new friends and creating art all makes for the best way to expand your world. I would love to invite you on my final retreat. Find out more here.

It is both bittersweet and exciting to share my grand finale for teaching. I have been teaching in person, online, making DVD's back in the day, writing books, now YouTube videos, and always creating my own art. I will miss the camaraderie of teaching, but I know I will still be connected with installation projects involving environmental issues, growing my own artist vision and participating in international art residencies. I would love to share with you one of my favorite places on earth, Ireland. Join me.

Free Tutorials on YouTube

I just wrapped up filming several videos and I think you are going to be inspired. Be sure to subscribe to the channel!

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For books, workshops, videos, and of course paintings check out my website. If you like what you see, contact me to get a discount code for a FASO website.

Mexico

SMA

CDMX

As soon as I arrived in Mexico it felt like coming home. I used to go every year but it had been 20 years since I had been there. San Miguel de Allende is a spectacular city filled with color, art and amazing shopping. Mexico City is a must do for the museums, parks and food, but the most amazing thing was hot air ballooning over the pyramids outside the city.

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The shop has many of my favorite supplies gathered into one place. This is the upgrade to the Resource list I used to send out. You can just click and shop products on my Amazon Shop. I am constantly updating it to coordinate with the videos.

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