Artist Statement | Welcome to Wild Ozark
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Trying out the blue with a test painting
You may remember my flutter of initial excitement about the possibility of adding a stable blue to my palette. Yesterday I finally tried it in a quick painting in my journal. It worked! It’s so exciting to have this color to use now. But until next year, the supply is very small and I’ll have …
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New Acceptance: Las Laguna Art Gallery | 2020 Portrait Exhibition
I woke up this morning to an email announcing that one of my paintings had been accepted to a show. It’s good there are portrait exhibitions that allow strange paintings to hop on board. It’s no secret that I am awful at painting people, especially faces. But I have one very weird one that fits …
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Book Review | Celebrating Australia’s Magnificent Wildlife
Celebrating Australia’s Magnificent Wildlife is a beautiful book. From the cover jacket to every page inside, it is a visual treat and delight that will mesmerize wildlife and art lovers from any continent. The author and artist shares with us her journey, and as a reader who is also both and artist and author, I rooted for her as the character in this story.
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New Acceptance – 78th Annual Audubon Artists Exhibit
I’m pretty excited to announce that ‘Destination Unknown’ was accepted to the the 2020 Audubon Artists Exhibit. As with most other art events, this one has moved online for this year. I believe the entries will be uploaded to this page soon: https://audubonartists.org/audubon-artists-78th-annual-exhibition/ 2020 Annual Audubon Artists Exhibit The exhibit will run from Nov. 1 …
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How To Identify Pigment Rocks?
A short tutorial on how to identify pigment rocks. This is how I decide which ones to use for making my handmade watercolor paints.
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Painting a Raccoon in Ozark Pigments on Black Paper
I’m working on painting a raccoon on black paper. It’s the first time I’ve painted on black, and the experience is very different from anything else I’ve tried to paint. As I was deciding which paper to put it on, I was holding the old Arches block of watercolor paper and about to throw the …
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Get Closer to Nature: 5 Quick and Easy Ways
There are so many quick and easy ways to get closer to nature that no one needs to go without the benefits of having that connection to our natural world. Click here for a more in-depth page on building a connection to nature. Quick & Easy Ways to Get Closer to Nature Go barefoot. Even …
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Nature Journal | Still the Mind to See and Hear
Summary: Still the mind to see and hear things you ordinarily wouldn’t notice. My walking meditation helps settle the audio-visual chatter. 9/17/20 Thursday | Today I stopped at the creek to gather a few rocks. Before that I’d spent the mid-morning hours pulling PDF’s of my old blogs so I can keep them in the …
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How Such Earthy Colors End Up In My Art
It’s hard not to want to spend all my time making art with earthy colors, especially when I see super pigmented resources like this all around me every day. Just look at this rock. I don’t know what took me so long to get started. The colors have been here all along, I’d just been …
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A Color Story | Earth Pigments | From Rocks to Paint
When I want a certain color of paint, I’ll go to the creek to look for the rocks I’ll need. In this case, the color is a rich russet – brown with orange influence. What is the color story behind the rocks? But that’s not really where the color story starts. The story starts when …
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Chasing the Blue Pigment
I had almost resigned myself to never having an Ozark source for a stable blue pigment. I’d tried various flowers around here, like chicory, and hoped the blue porcelain berry skins would have given me blue. None of the rocks have even the slightest hint of blue (except for the one that looked grayish blue …
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Art by Madison Woods | Ozark Pigments Across the US
I love seeing my art on the walls in other places and on the walls in other people’s spaces. It makes me happy to know these earthy Ozark pigments are out in the world bringing joy. Here are some of the photos owners have sent me of my works on their walls. Some are prints, …
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Getting the Colors Right | Fine Art Prints
Natural lighting makes a difference when you’re trying to get the colors right on fine art prints.
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2020 Art Exhibits
Well, it seems like most of the exhibit opportunities are online for the rest of the year. However, I have one painting that will be in an exhibit open to real-life interaction. Here are the Fall 2020 Exhibit locations and dates. Ongoing 2019-2020: ACNMWA Curated Biennial ACNMWA is a nonprofit statewide volunteer organization begun in …
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Painting the Old Ford 8N Tractor
Over the years since its been here, I’ve taken many photos of this old Ford 8N tractor. It used to belong to my grandfather and my dad refurbished it and brought it up here. Unfortunately, it hasn’t been used and the weather has been hard on it over the years. It needs a lot of …
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Handmade Paint | Smashing Rocks and Making Art in Kingston, Arkansas
In July, I forgot to make a 2-year anniversary post for my adventure of handmade paint and smashing rocks! Can you believe it’s already been two whole years since that first poor little painting? I find the time has flown by on one hand, and on the other, it seems like it has been a …
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Favorite Sounds | The Call of the Cuckoo | a.k.a. Rain Crow
For my World Watercolor Month journal entry on the 26 of July, the word prompt was ‘Favorite Sound’. Well, that’s about as hard for me to choose as my favorite color. But right now, during the sultry days of late summer, I guess my favorite sound to hear is the call of the cuckoo, also …
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Art Journaling with Quick Daily Sketches Makes Good Fodder
I use my daily sketches to practice some new things I don’t usually give myself much opportunity to try. And… it’s low risk!
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My Crow Obsession
Yesterday I mentioned my white spotted crow obsession. It’s been a couple of days since I’ve seen him, but this morning he was on the driveway again. Today I managed to get a pic of Spot. It’s not a very good one, but at least you can see he’s not a figment of my imagination. …
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Hermit Update | Still Loving These Beautiful Earth Colors
I’ve been trying to catch a crow I’ve named ‘Spot’. And during my daily walks, I’ve been visiting where the creek crosses the driveway to collect pigments and generally admire the beautiful Ozark earth colors.
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World Watercolor Month 2020 | A Daily Sketch for a Month
This month is World Watercolor Month 2020 and I’m trying to do a quick painting every day according to the daily prompts. If you want to join in, I’m posting mine over at Instagram and I’d love to see yours too. Since I’m also the new Instagram Ambassador for the Mid-Southern Watercolorists, I’m posting the …
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Behind the Scenes | Wildlife Art Commission | From Rocks to Painting
Behind the Scenes of a Wildlife Art Commission, with an artist who makes her own paints from local pigments.
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A day in the life of a pigment hunting nature artist
Lost my glasses and didn’t get the rock. A humorous account of a day in the life of a pigment hunting artist.
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Thrill the Artist in Your Life with These 5 Unique Kinds of Gifts
Gift-planning is a great way to break from the difficult days of early 2020. These 5 unique gifts will thrill the nature artist in your life.
