03/14/2026
I have a big birthday next month (yes, I’m turning 30 again 😉 🤫) and when thinking about what I wanted for my birthday, it was a no-brainer: travel for a week-long painting workshop in Tucson, AZ with . Tucson is a special place for me, I used to have family out here and we’d visit my grandparents every summer when I was a kid. It’s been a long time (11 years?) since I was last here and it’s still as beautiful as I remember. What a joy it was to paint this stunning, yet tricky, landscape this week in new and familiar locations around the area! I learned so much and can’t wait to take some of my plein air studies and turn them into studio paintings. Keeping these warm memories fresh as I head back east to chilly Boston ❤️