This piece truly was an unexpected journey and story.

This week I was asked, why am I trying new things? And I was told that I should keep creating as I’ve created in the past because that’s what people like.

I share in today’s video how being curious and trying new things is how we grow, learn and get new tools to create with.

And that as artists we are in the business of storytelling. Each piece that we create tells the story of where we are on our journey, and the season we’re in.

Every creation is an unexpected story… a legacy of who we are.

So let’s be curious together…. this piece was inspired by a journey through my fabulous book The Art of Anthropologie that I shared last week.

YOU are loved!

The original “An Unexpected Story” is available HERE.  Prints of this piece are available HERE.

Supplies used:

1. 12×16 canvas
2. Liquitex fluid matte medium
3. Liquitex white gesso
4. Utrecht gesso
5. Golden raw umber
6. Golden fluid acrylic Titan Buff, permanent violet dark
7. Golden so flat raw umber
8. Liquitex acrylic gouache burnt sienna
9. Liquitex acrylic ink carbon black
10. Daler & Rowney acrylic ink in sepia
11. Posca pens
12. Soft pastel sticks
13. Soft pastel pencil
14. Generals charcoal pencil
15. Large 1.5″ brushes
16. collage papers

Stencils used: These will be on sale this week

1. Bold Big Font
2. Numbers Grande
3. Bold Numbers 
4. Numbers Jumbled