Watercolor Conversations with Cara Brown

Send us Fan Mail Fifteen years ago, five artists joined my first watercolor group. We painted on folding tables in the sanctuary of the sweet church I was part of at the time. Two never came back. Three have never left. This episode is about what happens when we paint long enough, about what comes through our work, whether we realize it or not. It's also the introduction to a new series of conversations with some of my artists about their watercolor life, and why they stay....

Send us Fan Mail This is an accidental episode that came out of a conversation with my Claude.ai, of all things. It used a word that sent me into my archive to an episode that gets at a mysterious aspect of art-making. I take a stab at it, though it may not be something that can truely be put into words. The post that Claude's word sent me to is here: https://www.lifeinfullcolor.com/journal/art-life-stories/april-19-2016-ordinary-sacred-stillness-every-painting/. ...

Send us Fan Mail A tender episode about how we can look at big disappointments in life in a way that both allows our grief and loss - and mines the power in them - to live our lives with meaning that we'd not have without the loss. This is my story - my watercolor story, specifically. I'm a big fan of singer-songrwriter Sara Bareilles. Immersing myself in her new album, Good Grief, sent me to a related post that I share in this episode. Go to https://www.li...

Send us Fan Mail Ten years ago I pulled an oracle card that gave me this edgy message - "destruction before creation." At first I recoiled from it - no, not this one! I invite you to hear how I soon found my way to the wisdom in it - and to how it's guiding my creative life again - right now. The post that I landed on while cooking the vegetables I'd just picked from our garden is here: https://www.lifeinfullcolor.com/journal/art-life-stories/june-28-2016-destruction-creatio...

Send us Fan Mail Underneath the color, the water, the light, the composition — woven through it all— is ingredient we haven't expressly talked about. You. No matter how much experience you have, or how much success you've found, you are never NOT in your paintings. There is only one of you that will ever exist in all of time. Only one person who can make the art you're here to make. Learning to paint mostly isn't about the techniques. It's about becoming more yourself — and reve...