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“I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” -Vincent Van Gogh

08/30/2026

Summer meets fall.

We have entered a phase of cool mornings, sweaty afternoons, and wild, unruly flowers beginning to brown at the edges. Anxious squirrels and fidgety children anticipating back to school. Parents ready for a frickin schedule that they’ll complain about within a week. Adjustments. Changes. Endings.

I have had a spectacular summer with my kids. We summered the hell out of it. And that has meant leaving some of my personal goals by the wayside while eating popsicles on the front porch and splashing around at water parks.

Everyone who’s been through it tells me to enjoy my kids, spend the time with them, let the rest go. And I’m sure they know what they’re talking about.

But I miss having a good two straight hours of painting with no interruptions other than a stupid commercial for GLP-1s interrupting my podcast. Just me and a paintbrush with plenty of time to mix the colors and make mistakes.

I squeaked this one out over the course of the last three days and it feels like a much needed bandaid for that yearning. I love its summer meets fall feeling. And I’m relieved to find that I can still paint something that I love.

Ok let’s make the most of this last week or so of summer before we get back on a schedule and remember how annoying schedules are.🌻

“Making Time”
11”x15” acrylic on paper
AVAILABLE

08/27/2026

It’s been awhile since I painted a field of flowers. Feels like this one had been sitting inside me for awhile.

“Best Good Cousin”
9”x12” acrylic on paper
AVAILABLE

08/26/2026

Dolly, I wish you knew that for me, you exemplified what it looks like to be simultaneously feminine and steady as hell in your convictions. Proudly, and very out loud.

And I wish you knew that artists were painting in honor of you and in an effort to process your loss.

RIP, Beautiful Dolly.

08/17/2026

How do you feel about blue? It’s been the dominant color in my painting this summer for sure.

You’ll find “Mimosas & Marlins” and “Blueberry Fizz” now on my website-
https://blueberrybackr pads.com/collections/original-art

08/16/2026

I’m elbows deep into cleaning up my studio (aka my dining room table), and I just came across this. And THIS is what makes it so hard to clean.

Paint studios are inevitably messy and disorganized. Paint splatters, chalk dust settles, markers leak, papers pile up, collage pieces float around. It’s just part of the gig.

And canvases get buried under all those piles until once again revealed during a cleanup session like I’m currently stalling on.

I painted this following my family’s spring break in Miami Beach. A time when summer was teasing her way in, and I was obsessed with blue paint.

I like it. Bits of it I even love. The three-ish suns (moons?), the white splatter that is both frothy waves and stars in the sky, the upper right corner. I love how the colors play up there. And how there are sort of kind of two skylines. Do you see them like I do?

But overall as a piece, it has not crossed the finish line, and I don’t think it’s going to. I need to paint over it. Like grab some hot pink and just smear it around, paint over it. Writing that puts a lump in my throat. But letting this pile up under dusty papers (again) would just give me a headache.

Something about this piece was a stepping stone for me. I recognize it as a new style that I want to pursue, and I realllllly had fun painting it. But if I hung onto every artwork that spoke even just a little to me, I’d be swimming in em.

So I’m giving it its proper recognition here, and committing to painting over it before it pops up in another year under more dusty, paint splattered piles. Because I think it would rather be a super cool underlayer than a forgotten coulda been.

I don’t typically feel quite so attached to my artwork. This one just got me.

08/15/2026

The other day my son told me how much he loves a rainy Saturday morning, watching cartoons, while Mom sits nearby and paints.

I couldn’t agree more.

“Saturday Morning Cartoons”
11”x15” acrylic and chalk pastel on paper
AVAILABLE

08/08/2026

When I look out at an ocean, I “see” what lies beneath. The waving kelp forests, the unforgiving, rocky terrain, colorful creatures slinking through the endlessly moving water.

A few snorkel dives, some fantastic documentaries, and my imagination allow the vision.

Painting the ocean is another matter. How do we “see” all those layers on a one-dimensional piece of paper? How do I get past the surface to reflect what lies beneath- in paint?

08/06/2026

Painting is not like riding a bike…

I had to take some time away from the paintbrushes because summer demanded it. Trips up north, house guests, neighborhood porch gatherings, pickup soccer games at the park. Heat. Summer.

So getting back into it requires some warm up. And painting this was pure, meditative, relaxing fun. Playing with colors, repetitive lines, seeing how many greens I could mix.

It was meant to be a warmup but it gave me ideas for more. And so- more to come!

08/05/2026

It’s been a minute…trips up north, summertime house guests, neighborhood gatherings, SUMMER.

I’ve missed painting to the point of it becoming a need. Simultaneously excited and calmed by this setup that I’m about to get messy.

Hope your summer is as full and beautiful as can be.

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Minneapolis, MN

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+12182304801

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https://blueberrybackroads.com/collections/original-art

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