100 days of faces and abstracts side by side. Follow me on Instagram at carolbarberart.

Working on samples for the free Saturday Art Class at the Arts Center in Orange on January 30 from 10:00 to 12:00. This project will be based on Jim Dine’s “The Confetti Heart”, 1985. I have seen Dine’s art, even Read more…

  I “printed” these pugs by cutting the shape out of thin foam. The kind you get in the kid’s craft section at Wal-Mart. I just painted watercolor right on the foam and pressed it down, then embellished it with Read more…

I had so many fun surprises tonight. I went to an art opening for a juried show that included my watermedia piece. I would have never picked this piece myself but it worked so well with the other pieces in Read more…

I put all of my 8″ x 10″ matted prints that are available in my Etsy shop. Use the coupon code   ENDYEAR15    to get 25% off. Sorry for the less than lovely photography but I wanted to get everything Read more…

I have a new day job as a teaching assistant at an elementary school. Although I am not thinking very hard about my studio work, it seems some of my best work can be done at these times. The creative Read more…

I was planning on trying to get eight simplified landscapes on paper but one work leads to another and I have so many more ideas I want to try. Then I have slight variations and I am not sure which Read more…

Watercolor and gouache are new media for me. I always avoided them in the past because I thought if you messed up you had to start over on a new piece. So what is surprising me the most is how much Read more…

Paintings showing at the Arts Center in Orange:   And through June 30, 2015, works on paper at the office gallery of Piedmont Council for the Arts  in Charlottesville, VA: