Welcome!

Greetings to my fellow art junkies.

I hope you'll enjoy this blog, find it useful, and come back often. This is where I'll talk about products I'm using, what works for me and why, things I've tried, and art supplies in general. Don't you love it when you take a course, and "Have to" get new toys to play with? Yeah, me too.

Don't you just love to browse in an art store? You get lost in there, don't you?
And doesn't the time just disappear when you go to an online art store?

All those pencils, sketchbooks, pastels, paper, canvases, paint, neat tools, brushes.....yes, I know...

Since I love those too, I am in the process of joining some affiliate programs, (I'll explain, you may want to think about doing it too.) and the plan is to offer links to some of the products I know and use, with little reviews. Maybe some how-to's as well. I'll get a small kickback from the products you buy from here, which is pretty cool.

This one is a watercolor, so I'll be talking some about that.

...and a gouache painting on paper.
(Gouache, as you probably know, is a more opaque, fine and denser watercolor)

And since I also do a lot of landscapes, here's a recent one, in oils on a canvas panel:

If you are interested, the Affiliate Programs are offered by many online companies, of all types. You pick and choose which ones you want to apply to, most often subjects and products that you are already interested in, and then once you are accepted, you have access to their affiliate product links. (You need these special links, so that you'll get paid.) Most often there's a small percentage and a window of time involved. Maybe you see something here that you want to see on say, Dick Blick, and so you click on my link. You don't buy it today, but maybe within the time allowed, (sometimes as much as a week) you do decide to get that item, that paint, that pencil, whatever, and so you go back and find it, put it in your cart, and I get a small commission. Isn't that cool?

Here's a link to the Dick Blick Affiliate page, so you can read a bit about it.
It will take me awhile to get it all off the ground, but I'm thinking it'll be fun! Hope you'll join me here.