Last year, I wasn’t sure if anyone (including myself) would find it fun to create for an entire month using just a few color prompts. And I really wasn’t sure if anyone would be able to keep up with creating every single weekday. But as it turned out, it was fun. Many of us created every single weekday that month!  I decided I would bring it back and possibly make it an annual event.

I find myself using a few different techniques to make looser marks, which in turn make for looser paintings. In the video below, I share 5 of these techniques and examples of those techniques in action as I flip through a week of sketchbook entries inspired by the color sapphire blue.

In July, I took an intentional break from painting. We had family visiting, my son was going through a transition from preschool to public school, there were swim lessons, and you know…all the life things. Great, joy-filled, first-priority type of life-things. Things that make putting painting on hold totally worth it.