Hi, I’m Amy – Artist, Educator, Creative Cheerleader.
I would like to warmly welcome you to my blog! It represents my passion to share my deep love of creating and connecting with others. I am so grateful you are here.
I am a fine artist and art educator.
Most days you will find me trying to squeeze in painting time or project creation amid the busyness in my home studio (aka corner of my living room) in Austin, Texas. After double majoring in 2 Dimensional Media and Art History, I taught art to all grades k4 – 12th grades over the span of 7 years. I now part-time homeschool my own tiny artist, lacing in art in whatever ways I can. I have found that the connection this creates and the joy it brings us fosters many of the greatest shared moments we have and I am indescribably grateful for such a gift.
I believe that everyone – no matter your knowledge or ability level or mess-comfort level – can use art to connect with others and help build skills that will serve for a lifetime.
It doesn’t have to be hard or involve obscure materials. I created this space to share easy, fun while also rich projects you can do at home. I love to include art history, vocabulary, motor skills and other sneaky learning in a (hopefully) really fun way!
Most of these things you may be surprised to find are really intuitive!
I also share some of my own work and process as well.
I paint mostly in acrylic and watercolors. The love for nature was engrained in me from a young age. I grew up with parents who encouraged me to explore and find wonder in everything around me – from the woods around our house and the beautiful beaches of the Florida Gulf Coast where I grew up, to new mountains to hike or coasts to surf.
For as long as I can remember I have been recording this love through drawing and painting.
As an adult, most days I need help remembering that our world is still beautiful, there is good being made, and that we are loved far beyond our understanding. The waves of the ocean, vibrant flower petals, the infinite range of color in nature, the intricacies of a human face, the magic machinery of our hands, people of courage coming together, I need to notice it all. These are the reminders of a Creator’s care, love and promise of hope. Painting is one way I remember, a prayer for hope. Although I have been a mostly representational artist my whole life, two years ago I began creating abstract work as well.
I experience it as a way to ask questions, to express emotions, prayers, a gift.
Thank you again for being here and please feel free to connect with me by subscribing here and reaching out in all the many places around the internet we all love to hang out!
