Art Adventures+Sketching in Japanese Gardens!

Hello everyone!

April is a very busy month for me. If you haven’t already stopped by, I have a piece in the Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour show at the Kolva Sullivan gallery this month. The show is jammed pack with art from the amazing artists from the September art market and I highly recommend stopping by before it gets packed up at the end of the month.

If you weren’t able to make it out to my show at the Art Spirit Gallery in February, then may I suggest stopping by the Central Library in downtown? Almost all of the paintings from that show (one sold and the other is at the Kolva Sullivan show) are hanging on the big wall opposite the cafe on the ground floor for this month. Thank you to Eva for the invite and for her fabulous art hanging skills (as seen above).

I’ve been teaching at the Corbin Art Center the past couple of weeks and I was lucky to arrive early one glorious evening and did a quick sketch from the top of the hill. Absolutely lovely!

I recently finished a painting of another Corbin-adjacent building-Maryhill! This whole complex just off of 7th Avenue is full of historic buildings. Along with the park with the beautiful old trees, it is definitely worth a visit and walk around.

If you haven’t stopped by the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture lately, you should! The exhibit they have on Japanese armor and art right now is stunning!

I sketched these in pencil at the museum and added color later. I was delighted to see another person sketching while I was there. So much fun!

And speaking of Japan and the Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, I am DELIGHTED to tell you that the museum secured the rights for me to teach several sketching classes at Manito’s Japanese Gardens at the end of this month and the beginning of May. I suspect this might be a once in a lifetime opportunity so sprint on over and sign up! Here’s a link. The website can be somewhat hard to navigate so you are also welcome to reach out to the education coordinator Amanda Gardner at her number:(509-363-5357)

Classes are April 22nd and 25th 6:15-8:15

And May 1 & 2nd, 6:15-8:15-Sign up for May Classes here.

I hope to see you there!

Watercolor Landscape Class + 33 Artists Market

Do you like how I paint landscapes? Would you like to learn to paint your own?

Watercolor Landscape Class starts next week on March 26th at the Corbin Art Center, 6-8 pm. Visit my.spokanecity.org to find the class and sign up! Look under “Adult Art Classes”. Or just click HERE!

If flowers are more your thing, my class on painting flowers (also at the Corbin Art Center) will start May 8th. You can sign up for it here.

Last bit of news below-the 33 Artists Market!

It’s at the Woman’s Club on Saturday March 29th, 11-5, which will hopefully be substantially less snowy than this (in fact, no snow please!). I’m fully in the spring mindset and I know I’m not alone! There’s going to be a great selection of artists there and I’d love to see you and catch up on how your winter has been!

Address:1428 W 9th Ave-on the lower South Hill. There’s free parking in the neighborhood.

See you there!