This page will help you navigate to the live session recordings and find topics. Below the images I listed the main demo or conversation topic for each month to make it easier to find things you are interested in (the list covers all of the major topics covered in each session, as I wanted to keep it short and easily skimmed).
Clicking on an image below will bring you to that year's recordings. As always, if you have any questions or want to request a demo topic or landscape for me to paint please don't hesitate to reach out.
List of Demo and Conversation Topics
2025
- April/ May- I share stories and paintings from Nepal! And the group shares ideas for the upcoming
- March- Demo topic of a coastal scene with ink and watercolor! Group chat focused on what I'm packing for Nepal, a sketchbook, and a few folks sharing new tools.
- February- No demo this month. Group chat primarily focused on road tripping to the Southwest and Claire's upcoming trip to Nepal.
- January- A 14 minute speed painting demo of Denali with fall colors. Group chat focused on Ink Sketching, upcoming classes, and exploring some ideas for the Adventure Lessons.
2024
- December- A brief demo of sketching and watercoloring snowy trees. Group chat focused on ink sketching ideas and topics!
- November - Our demo topic is cloudy skies, with an emphasis on water control
- October - a really unique live session where we discuss and brainstorm what went wrong with a recent field painting. This was really fun and informative!!
- September - Alpenglow painting process, demo of yellow aspen leaves close up and far away
- August - sharing paintings and stories from Alaska and kayaking residency in Tracy Arm (no demo this month)
- July - Discussion of art residencies and painting while traveling, demo of the Chief Mountain in British Columbia
- June - Demo of wet next to wet painting techniques for trees and mountains
- May- Paintings and green mixtures from the art residency in Southwest WA, new thinking/ strategies for painting moving water
- April- My current favorite synthetic brushes and strategies for getting to know a new color and how it behaves
- March- Extra colors for painting in the desert, exploring high-dispersion paints (crazy patterns), discussion of traveling with paint & flattening paintings
- February- Mixing purples, watercolor fundamentals discussion
- January- Techniques or loose watery reflections, discussion of painting process (sketch, value study, painting study)
2023
- December- Bloom explorations, tree branches with shifting colors, and avoiding hard edges in backgrounds
- November- Painting a Ginko Leaf and sketching a Joshua tree with an ink brush pen
- October - Glacier patterns and a brush pen & watercolor demo of a rock wall with rolling green hills. Share info in a current illustration project.
- September - Tree painting with different shaped brushes.
- August - Foliage patterns with wet-in-wet blending, using an angle shader brush to create rock textures
- July - Wildflower demo with watercolor & ink
- June - Sea Ice & painting trees with a wide flat brush
- May - Snow and rock patterns as seen from an icefield in Alaska
- April - Snowy & atmospheric scene of hills in the Great Basin of Nevada
- March - Grand Lake in Colorado (mountain, hills, and tiny colorful cabins!)
- February - using blooms to simplify patterns in an alpine lake
- January - Japanese Poster paint demo & composition discussion
2022
- December - Going from field sketch to a big painting, shadow and rock mountain techniques demo
- November - Snowy trees & shadows demo, color mixes for bright blue skies
- October - Strategies for painting foregrounds, demo of watercolor & gouache mini desert landscape
- September - Desert sunrise skies, sandstone shadows, and a favorite green for deserts
- August - Discussion of painting mindsets, commissioned painting process, and art residencies (more info on residencies in this blog post)
- July - Foliage (especially grassy patterns), blooms, comparing phthalo blues, discussion of Gaia mapping application
- June - Gesture sketching & Brush pen demo, color mixing (quinacridone violet, Pyrrol orange, sodalite vs lunar black)
- May - Petrified wood demo & favorite colors for painting the rocks
- April - Crater Lake shadows demo, and color mixing explorations (triads, new color swatches)
- March - 3 techniques for painting yellow larch trees, ink sketching demo
- February - Glazing for skies and trees, demo of painting snowy trees
- January - Discussion of yellow paint colors, palette cleaning, when to upgrade materials, and ink sketching. Demo various water techniques.
2021
- December - Color mixing (swatches of all my blues, monte amiata sienna discussion). Nerd out on ink pens
- November - Painting small rocks and then zoomed out rocks on ridges, swatching all the yellows in my palette, watercolor books
- October - Demo backlit rock & white gouche use, brief demo of yellow cottonwoods
- September - Color swatch exercises, sky gradients practice
- August - paper discussion, explore a few new colors, tips for painting silhouetted figures
- July - Discussion of learning from "failed" paintings, composition tips, glacier patterns and mark-making
- June - Discussion art books and painting quickly, demo of simplifying a desert scene
- May - Demo on using value (range light and dark) and color together
- April - Coastal headland demo
- March - Woodland shadows, waves and white space demos
- February - Mountain patterns and rock live Q&A/ demo
