Bee Kind Art Collective

I love making them! They are my happy place right now. I feel like I could sit and make these all day.

I'm thinking 4 stamps for like $8.00. What do you guys think?

I hope you all are having a good Sunday, and a good start to your week!

Since I am a self taught illustrator I have been using my down time recovering from surgery to do every free tutorial I have been able to fit in my schedule. This was one that was a do at your own pace by Marie Burke. I'll add her site below if you want to find it to complete it. Anyhow, always wanting to share cool thing I find with you all. Happy painting!

Bee Kind All!

My friend recent went to the beach and shared some of the pictures with me. I wanted to capture some of the beautiful colors we see in our summer sunsets here in Washington State. I dare say they rival some of the sunsets I used to see when I lived in Florida.

I hope you all are off to a good week! if we can be anything this week I hope e can find at least one opportunity to Bee Kind to a stranger this week. Luvs to you all!

Have a good week!

We handed out about 350 stickers today! It was so much fun to go and hang out with two of my kiddos and add to the merry making. A couple of random snaps of the parade and one of our trove of stickers we handed out. Happy Pride month all! I hope all those celebrating, especially those celebrating for the first time, are having a wonderful pride month.

My first little painting with my partially paralyzed self. It was MUCH harder to paint than I thought it would be. I can see how control over my right arm is going to be a problem. Fortunately for me I am comfortable with both hands, and only stopped using my left side after my stroke in 2008. Since then I have adapted to the 5-10% mobility loss in that side and it doesn't bother me anymore, I am just not used to writing as a lefty anymore. I did this second picture left handed to start getting back in the habit of being more of a lefty until and if my right side gets better. Looks like I have a ways to go. Wish me luck friends!

A couple more stickers for pride this year. Keeping it short - have a great day!

Surgery updates below :

Anyone going to the Seattle Pride Parade? Though I will be healing and won't be going for long, assuming everything goes well, I do hope to be going to hand out stickers for a couple hours.

Perhaps I shall run into you lovely folks and give you a free sticker or two! This will be one of them. I am off to paint the rest and try not to think about my disc replacement. 😬

For Mermay 2026! Which I very nearly let slip by with all the craziness that has gone on in my personal life.

My oldest child got married, and it was beautiful! It was work, but very much worth it for how lovely it all turned out and how much fun everyone had. Also, have been deep in preparation for a multilevel disc replacement surgery in my cervical spine in just under two weeks, plus doing everything we can to avoid shutting down our local NPO because of shady overseas asshats trying to take over our NPO name, so that means meeting lawyers we cannot afford but must somehow comeup woth the money.

Here's the stand alone poppy I did from that class from Alex Kincaide. Her little $10 week long class was worth it for sure. You learn to paint or for new ways to paint 3 or 4 flowers and the greens, then a big finished bouquet at the end and you only have to sit through mildish pitching for her longer year long class. A friend of mine ask me to do this with her, and she had never watercolored in her life. By the end she was doing great and painted right along! Her final piece turned out so well she gave it away for mother's day. So $10 well spent for sure. :)

I thought this poppy was pretty for something practice especially. This was day three. I hope you all enjoy too!

Just wrapped up a watercolor class and thought I would share some of what I learned. I love the way I learned to make poppies and adding the textures on the petals. Anyhow I thought It turned out pretty and wanted to share in case you thought it was too.

OH! Also my flower wall hasn't even made it up on to the walls yet and I sold the large daffodil painting! So exciting! Hopefully they will all sell by the time they come down :)

I hope you all have had a great week!

Here is my Wall of Flowers that is going up locally for some extra exposure. I did end up repainting the rose in the middle as I wasn't happy with the red one, but the new one turned out well. It's a pinky purple color. I'll have to take a good scan of it ad post it soon.

Anyhow, I am working on this and a little freebee box I am going to call free 'refrigerator art.' if I have things that are cute enough not to be thrown away, but something I don't want/can't to sell, I'm going to put in this decorated box, and make a deal with some places to put it out so I can give these little art pieces away so people can decorate their 'fridge' with it. :) Like this little guy, I can't sell this, but how cute is this?

Happy Earth Day All! I really do feel like I should have painted the whole thing on fire, but alas, I have hope we will somehow pull our heads out of our collective asses and start caring and reclaiming the health of our planet. For OUR sake, if nothing else; My goodness. *sigh*

Until then I will continue to work in my community and I will bask in all of the wonderful animal and nature videos that remind me just how magnificent our planet truly is and how worthwhile it is to save her, even if just to give us a place to lay our weary heads at night.