Firsties!

Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.  

~John F. Carlson

Welcome to my blog!  Here I will share my curriculum of self-guided activities to improve my skills and individual style in creating landscape and still life oil paintings.  I hope you'll join in my journey.  You can learn more about me here, and here is a link to some of my recent art.

My curriculum is based on various treasured art books, online challenges, and other resources.  I have used each resource to create "units" and divided the units into discrete lessons or practice goals.

Some of my favorite art books

At the beginning of each unit, I will post information about the resource and necessary materials.  For each lesson, I will provide explanation, document my process, and post my results through text, photos, and video.  I will also post the materials needed for the next lesson.  I hope this format makes it easy for others to follow along.  Please just bear with me because I haven't written a blog before.  I'll get there.

Please subscribe to follow along or join in.  I'd love to meet you--please introduce yourself in the comments.  Also, your feedback is most appreciated.  Leave your questions, comments, and hate mail below.  (I won't post the hate mail, ha!)  Thanks for stopping by.  Monique