Dori DeCamillis

In last Friday's Without a Net Creativity Workshop, among other projects, we messed around with watercolor. Here are a few examples of students' projects. See the full story (Curiouser and Curiouser) about the class on withoutanet.blog. 

In November I enjoyed an artist residency at Hambidge Residency Center in North Georgia. Here are a few of the thousands of images I took, mostly for my new paintings. To read more about my adventure, check out my Without a Net blog. The above image is from the Hambidge grounds. They own 600 acres in the breathtaking North GA mountains.  My studio table I'd break the internet if I posted all the mushroom photos I took. Here is one. There were several site works of art in the woods. We visited a few of the other artist studios.  We had a little fall color left. It was chilly, which meant less sweat and fewer ticks. The many pools and ponds made for good reflection photos.

Elk River Valley I drove around taking snaps on  quick trip home to Steamboat Springs to see family for Memorial Day. My student's need some landscape images to work from. Good thing I grew up in Paradise. Elk River Gore Range near Silverthorne Borden Pond with Sleeping Giant  Storm Mountain from Fish Creek Meadows Flattops Wilderness and Lake Catamount from Rabbit Ears Pass Old Truax barn on Elk River Road Sleeping Giant Flattops from near Sleeping Giant Storm Mountain from Sleeping Giant Wolcott Reservoir  Ranch in Elk River Valley Mesas in Kremmling, CO

Unrelated to the photo above, my good friend Kerry Madden-Lunsford just had this wonderful article published in the Los Angeles Times. I enjoyed it so much I just had to share. It's about her visit to a local prison to teach children's book writing to inmates.  Kerry's Article

Spring in Birmingham has been over-the-top spectacular this year. Here are some blooms from our yard. Above: Lenten Rose Creeping Phlox Solomon Seal Azalea 

But Here's the Joy         2016        20" x 16"       Oil on Board I recently posted a new entry on my Without a Net blog. It's about the mind state behind the painting above. I'll save you from more explanation and give you the link: But Here's the Joy