Hello hello & Happy 5 Step….Sunday? 😅  Friday is arriving a bit late this week (it’s been a WEEK over here) but your tutorials are finally here!

This week’s paintings actually came from a mix of inspiration from my own backyard & a couple of projects from The In the Garden Chapter from my new book! I've got some coneflowers and asters growing outside and the coneflowers have been covered in the cutest fuzzy little bumblebees. I couldn’t ask for a better reference!

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There’s actually a little extra story behind this week’s paintings..

I FINALLY have a physical copy of my book !!

There’s a project in my From the Garden chapter called Butterfly on a Flower and I thought it would be fun to take a little inspiration from that project, swap our butterfly for one of those fuzzy little bees from my yard and give the whole thing some warmer autumn colors. There’s also a watering can project in the book, so I combined a little inspiration from that with the asters and coneflowers growing in my yard to create our Autumn Flowers in a Watering Can tutorial.

I talk about this in my book, but I really believe inspiration is all around us if we just take a second to notice it. It doesn’t have to come from some perfect reference photo or faraway place. Sometimes inspiration really is as simple as walking outside and noticing what’s growing, what’s buzzing around, or what catches your eye. Then we can take that little moment, simplify it, make it our own, and turn it into something we can paint.

This week’s paintings are such a perfect example of that and I love that something so simple can turn into a painting. 💛

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