I am an artist, living my dream of painting and creating art everyday. It is my journey through the process that is so exciting, the trials, the experiments the people I meet! Won't you join me as I have fun doing what I love most, working in watercolor, pastels and fabric.
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California Artists
Postcards from our walks- Sharing Art Globally
My entry on video
Currently at Visions Art Museum,San Diego,CA
Click on the picture to See a video from the show!!
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Workshop for March 2011
Sketch to Quilt Workshop
500 Art Quilts
My art quilts, Transformations and Crepe Paper Poppies are featured in this book. Click on the picture to order your copy now from Amazon to get your book by February 2010 at a special preorder price
My Fabric Lines
Available for order now, in stores Feb/Mar 2010
Spring 2010 Fabric Line
Lil Miss Cutie Patootie and Friends to be released at Spring Market 2010
Current publications I am featured in!
Check out the newest Fons and Porters Love of Quilting for my free pattern!
Click on the picture of the quilt to see the quilt video filmed at the Long Beach Quilt Festival, July 23-26, the quilt is now home from Houston and hanging at Road to California Jan 14-17, 2010
Sumi
Back from Denver now juried into Road to California Jan 14-17, 2010
doodle delight winners
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its time to announce the 4 winner for the Doodle Delight online class
giveaway!
email me at alisaburke@gmail.com for your confirmations...
Drawing Attention: Making News Around the World
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*Our USK Blog Expands *
Have you noticed the new pages on our blog? USK Correspondent Cathy
Johnson (Kansas City, USA) is curating two new pages we th...
June 2012 Painting Challenge
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The May challenge must have been a stinker. I actually was concerned that
it had too much detail…or maybe it was just too common of a photo to
capture your...
"Triple Play"
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10 x 8"
oil on masonite
The evil flu bug that possessed me for too long has finally left to go make
someone else miserable. Not that I'd wish that on any...
My Favorite Church Lady
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So after yakking about how I don't do any church sketching while in
Wisconsin, my 'hat lady' from last year wore this interesting hat and I was
'forced' t...
Keep on Walking!
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Don't know about you, but we've been missing those exciting rectangles of
card and illustrated envelopes arriving every month in our postboxes - so
some S...
The Kindness Chronicles
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[image: the kindness chronicles]
A *video* of my prayer flags. The Prayer Flag Project. Anyone can join
in. The making feels good, and so does the intenti...
Celebration of the Cake!
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My artwork for Girl Scouts 100th Birthday. I was contacted by Casey
Gullett, a GS leader in Kentucky, who asked permission to use the image on
a cake for ...
Super Heros, Super Cake!
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[image: 26-04-12 by Anita Davies]
26-04-12, a photo by Anita Davies on Flickr.
Avengers Assemble was fantastic!!! I love the modern Marvel films!
My Sons c...
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Back working in the studio this week on paintings for my August show,
including repainting the sky of "Blue Barn" ( a small detail shown here)
from cloud...
Deborah, The Prophetess - Pink Saturday
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This is Deborah, Prophetess and Judge of Israel in the time of the Judges.
Her story can be found in the Bible in Judges Four. It is a dramatic
story...
At The Pastel Studio of Canada
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Large workshop space!
I am pleased and proud to be teaching at Canada's exclusive purveyor of
high-end pastel materials, The Pastel Studio of Canada, ...
120602 A wet Saturday in town
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[image: 1200602_01 Being distracted]
Sorry... I just can’t help myself can I??? Big day planned but I was
getting distracted this morning. As I recently fou...
The Big Diamond Jubilee Art Challenge
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This is an Art Challenge for all those artists, young and old, who are
wondering how they can mark the Diamond Jubilee on this very festive and
celebratory...
Sibling Rivalry
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"Sibling Rivalry," the newest installation in the "Cherished" series, 10"
x 18", acrylic on museum quality panel, depicting a pair of chocolate lab...
THE GIFT
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My daughter in law's sister had a beautiful baby boy. My gift to the
couple was a portrait of the baby. I guess they couldn't wait until Nathan
was able ...
Latvia ~ June 2012
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Bill Guffey
"Shack"
5" x 7", oil, palette knife on canvas panel
*Our June 2012 Paintout is *
*Latvia*
Open for participation from June 1st till June ...
EDiM #29, 30, & 31
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EDiM #29 - Somewhere I've never been before
EDiM #30 - Something from my favorite sport
EDiM #31 - Something I'm afraid of
The EDiM is now finished. I...
old computer..new work!
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Sorry for the lapse in posts.. my old computer decided it would no longer
let me access my blog. It was only 10 years old or so... I had to break
down and...
challenge, inspiration, why paint? and Wolf Kahn
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9x9 pastelThis morning was raining and dreary. I left the house at 6:00 am
wondering what will I paint today? It made me think...does it really
matter? Th...
First Saturday Open House in Santa Ana
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The Santora Building is a laboratory for an exciting collection of
galleries, studio work spaces and art related uses where people work, show
and gather.
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Spear March
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Today a march was held in Rosebank, quite near to where I live, to protest
against the Goodman Gallery displaying a "derogatory" painting of the
president...
Silky Bougainvillea - Silk Painting
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I started to work on this a few weeks ago intending to paint it while I was
demonstrating silk painting at Chemers gallery. I put the resist on 3
silks ...
Just a few days left...
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I wanted to give you the heads up that there are just a few days left to
buy this limited edition thermofax screen Florabunda, sale ends May 31st.
The i...
Messing up some paper
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I am preparing for the workshop at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Santo
Domingo in July. It´s going to be all about getting out of your drawing
comfort z...
Riding the chi: my artist's statement, illustrated
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I'd dreaded coming up with the artist's statement I needed to have to apply
for a solo show in 2013. Not to disparage artists (one of whom I am, you'll
hav...
Portrait Workshop!
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I'm so excited and honored to be asked by Guy Magallanes (you may have seen
him along with Joyce Faulknor on the TV show Art to Art) to ...
Venice Windows Watercolour
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Watercolour 27.5 x 18.5 cm
Since I've been in a bit of an artistic slump of late, I've been tidying my
studio. I found this watercolour, abandoned two y...
New Watercolor Paintings
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*"Little Guardian", watercolor, 39 x 33"*
I've been painting furiously for an upcoming exhibition, "Beauty And The
Beast: Faces and Figures of Pitts...
May 2012
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Well I didn't get any more painting done that last week of April but I had
started something for another challenge and finished it on May Day so I am
count...
Paul and Babe in Watercolor!
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Here in Bemidji we will be celebrating 75 years of having Paul Bunyan and
Babe the Blue Ox as our city mascots! I wanted to paint them but thought I
would...
Bolsa Chica Wild Life Reserve, California
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Bolsa Chica Salt Marsh
Ink on paper
This was a beautiful California spring day with clear sky and a slight
breeze. I walked the path for about an hour, ...
Making a fuss
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2012 is proving to be eventful and likely to stay that way for a few months
yet. So I'm not feeling guilty about doing something that is ...
Still Life with Oranges
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For some reason, when I paint in oils I always produce extremely tight
paintings. Landscapes are improving a bit, but I tend to rework still life
subjects...
Birthing Newborn Photography
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Last week I had the honor of photographing my friend’s newborn baby
girl. I had a lot of fun and learned so much! I’m excited that in a
couple of w...
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1st place winner, “Riverside
Gem” by Durre Waseem
16 x 20, Oil
Here are the winners for the 9-Day Paintout
First Place Award: Duree Waseem
Second Pla...
Figure Drawing - April 2012
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*Layna*
14x10" Charcoal
Spring finds me back to figure drawing. A new venue was recommended and we
had a lovely young model. She was a professional in...
Music notes tattoo designs
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Looking out my window it is a wet night in Belfast and me and the Tattoo Ideas For Girls team are thinking about going out for a cold beer. Then I heard swee...
Where does the time go??
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is it just me or is everyone feel like they are running in circles?? just doesn't seem like there is any time to paint any more... how can i get better if ...
The Sky and Clouds class results
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Cloud demo, PanPastels and sticks on Pastelmat, 9" x 15"If you would like
all the details on how to paint the sky (Chapter 7) and clouds (Chapter 8),
pleas...
Holidays!!
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Dustbunnyartist posted a new topic:
Anyone else feeling excited over the holidays this year?? I'm getting
revved up for a different home made flavor this...
'Waterfall'
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'Waterfall' 36"x24" Pastel on Sandpaper
We painted at Crystal Springs today. Although it was predicted to be cloudy
the sun shone all afternoon. It was a b...
A note to subscribers...
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I noticed that there are many new subscribers to this blog since last week
when I posted the notice of the new Spotlight feature I've started on my
persona...
Yellow Boat and Masa Restaurant
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The restaurant was done on masa paper from a smaller painting I had done in
plein air. I like the masa for the weath...
Sketching In the Alps
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This sketch was done during a walk up to the Trient Glacier in Switzerland
a few weeks ago. Glacial valleys are fantastic places to walk. You can
see ...
"Summer Evening"
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Hopefully the dolrums are over! Finally felt like doing something. 8x10,
colored pencil. I've come to use "don't paint from a photo unless you can
improve...
~* Spring Break *~
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Thanks to Horst Hittenberger for his wonderful copy of Bouguerau's *Dear
Bird*.
William Bouguereau** - *Dear Bird* (1867) I apologize for not posting
e...
Model´s face
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Another week – another life drawing session. With rather poor results this
time. The only thing I was remotely happy with was this – a fast sketch of
the ...
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