An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

Actually I have fallen love with all the clown words!!! BUT...it's still a big space with all the same value in it. So I may do furthe...

There is something really fun watching a piece begin to almost "leap" off a page of paper. This is about 20 x 20 watercolor on Ar...

A friend found this book at Big Lots for $3. Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about their Art. It's a delightful...

I've enlarged the clowns and got them sketched out on watercolor paper. As I look them over and enjoy the ideas going through my head in...

My paper paintings are featured on Elizabeth Nelson's blog on her Feb 25th post. Thanks Elizabeth!!!

It's the birthday of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir , born in Limoges, France (1841). Renoir used the techniques of Impressionism, i...

Today I taught a 3 hour card-making workshop...mostly to help out our park members get cards ready to sell at the Fine Arts show coming up i...

I took this photo Sunday afternoon in Leesburg on the CROP walk. What a gorgeous day we were gifted with...76 and sunny. What is a CROP ...

I have cropped this image slightly...but I am not sure...I may have cropped too much (I just laid a mat over it...I didn't actually cut ...

I've been a Van Gogh fan forever. Here's painting of his I had never seen before. The title is "Still Life With Open Bible...

I have added 3 figures and moved the composition along off to connect to the right side of the painting. I want to see the 3 figures actual...

As soon as I finished this watercolor on heavy weight Yupo I realized it was the exact size of the old wooden serving tray that I was planni...

These are LOVE BEARS. The ladies of my church ( Pilgrims United Church of Christ in Fruitland Park, FL) knit and crochet these little bear...

Gosh it feels good to be back...although it hasn't been all that long. I've been going through allergy testing. Never had so many ...

You can tell I've been away from the studio for days. I am looking at other people's art, however. This amazing piece can be seen ...

In Donna Zagotta's blog today she talks about how she became sensitive to seeing...especially shadows. Having just taught a beginner wa...

We were lucky that the tornado warnings and tremendous rains came on Friday and not today! What we had today was 65 (mostly sunny) and windy...

This is knock-your-socks-off watercolor by Deb Ward. Click here. Coming from a midwest background full of corn fields..this had such a re...

Move over Ellen and Oprah. Here's Ginny! Our park in Florida (Hawthorne Park in Leesburg) has closed circuit TV and they broadcast eve...

This was my demo for the Yupo class on Tuesday. I taped off a piece of heavy weight yupo paper so I could try several different techniques o...