Continuing the "January White Sale" theme, this week's white animal is a snowy owl. With the request of icicles, it made a nice story of the owl's gaze being captured by the sparkling freezing drips. The video for this painting is up now on www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com . Classes at Showcase this week are: Tuesday and Wednesday 10:00 A.M. - noon for independent projects Tuesday and Wednesday 1:30 - 3:30 P.M. for step-by-step Snowy Owl

A January white polar bear project will start the new year in our watercolor video classes. In watercolor, white is the white of the paper, so painting white is easy, right? Not so fast! White is the reflection of all color. Ah, value is important too. This cuddly bear video is up now on the video class page at www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com . I will show you exactly how I painted him. (subscription only $10/month for unlimited views of 386 videos) Missed everyone over the

This next week enjoy one or all of the 23 winter videos at the top of the video page on www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com . Tuesday we will have class at Showcase from 10 to noon and 1:30-3:30 PM. Bring your favorite current project or request to work on in class. Wednesday is for celebrating Christmas Eve, so no class. Christmas break will be through January 5, 2026. What a productive painting year it has been! I love seeing your improvements. New Year's resolution? More! M

Let's make it snow! This long narrow format is perfect for a fence in the snow. Painting white snow is a balance of values and color. Nothing is truly white. This video is up now at www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com on the video class page. (subscription $10/month) Next week we will paint it together step-by-step. Showcase classes are: 10:00 AM to noon Tuesday and Wednesday for Independent painters 1:30-3:30 PM Tuesday and Wednesday step-by-step painting and Christmas party -

Lights are going up everywhere, a brightness against the winter cold. This simple design is perfect for cards and slightly addicting. Definitely FUN! The video is up (video class page-subscription $10/month) now at www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com . Next week classes at Showcase are: 10:00 AM to noon Tuesday and Wednesday for independent painting 1:30-3:30 PM Tuesday and Wednesday for step-by-step Christmas Lights See you there!

Thursday night we will see the full moon. It is called the cold moon because it is the longest night of the year. In November we had the Beaver moon. I am combining the two to make our project this week. It has a two part video posted now: The trees are done in part one ( approximately 20 minutes) and the beaver and foreground are in part two (approximately 6 minutes). I almost scrapped the project, but salvaged it by splattering Titanium white paint after it was done a

Let's paint this week before cooking and gathering with family. Two options are offered in replay videos ( www.ShowcaseArtCenter.com video class page- subscription $10/month required) this week: Northern Lights and Turkeys. Since we were blessed to see the Northern Lights in Colorado a few weeks ago, let's commemorate the event with some fun watercolor techniques to make mini paintings. These could become cards or tree ornaments very easily. Classes this week at Showcas

Let's allow watercolor to be loose and juicy doing what it does best: dripping, mingling, and blossoming. A scalene triangle composition becomes a trinity nativity scene. Practice a lot by hand-painting all your Christmas cards or have a local copy shop reproduce cards using your favorite painting. This video is up now at www.Showcaseartcenter.com . We will meet for classes at the Showcase this week: 10:00-noon Tuesday for independent projects 1:30-3:30 PM Tuesday Step-by

Happy Halloween and end of October. I have missed making new videos and look forward to making new painting videos in November. My knee is healing remarkably and rapidly. I appreciate the time off and the pain medications have insisted on it. HA! Next week we will be watching Plein Air LIVE at Showcase, so no new video till the next week. Stop by and join the watch party. In the meantime, there are plenty of videos to revisit and review, just nothing new. But with my memory,

Several of you have suggested a loose juicy butterfly painting. Here it is! Two ways to go about it. One way would be to draw first...