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Learn how to make your watercolors more luminous.

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I made 2 different versions this year: Golden and Fairy Tales.

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 Art for Earth is running again! My contribution to this package is a tutorial for this painting using watercolors, inks and pencils. The video is almost 1h15 mns and I really love the effects that I got. I created this class just for Art for Earth :). And a 20% off coupon my online classes. I never discount my classes and I do not plan on doing so again. I hope you join us as I truly believe that planting trees is an absolutely essential part for fighting climate change and restoring ecosystems.

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I wish for you to always find respite in Creativity. Whatever Creativity means for you. Tonight I will make little bundles of paper with my family. We will each write a wish on it, tie it with a string and throw it in a fire.  And I will think of you as I close my eyes to send that wish in the Universe.  Yes, you.  You are part of my dream and I can't thank you enough.   I will leave you with this poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox written in 1910:   The Year   " What can be...

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artist life, blog, dog, nature, personal life, stress -

I had the scare of my life last week. Now, I realize I am lucky. The scare of my life could have been so much worse. But just thinking about it again is making my heart race and my brain go numb.  Cinder our 1 year old dog got loose at the river and disappeared for 8 hours. And the last time we saw her she was being chased by 2 coyotes. We were on a bluff overlooking the river below with oak woods to the right. It was a bright autumn day where everything looks golden and shimmery in...

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