Here's a glimpse of the ice sculpture that was waiting for us to discover this morning while working on our busted water lines. They sure make it easy to see where the leak is! Our water froze the other day and it wasn't warm enough to try to deal with the aftermath from that until today. So, I'm behind on the next video showing what I do with the mortar & pestle. Tomorrow is work-at-the-office day, so by this weekend I'll try to get the next part uploaded. If any of y'all are in the path of the winter storm coming in, stay warm and dry! We're expecting a good snow. Update: well, I had posted this little clip on Instagram and it got over 1k views pretty quickly. A news agency contacted me to ask for licensing rights to it, and I agreed, so now I have to add this to my posts anywhere it's online: Disclaimer: This content is exclusively managed by Caters News. To license or use in a commercial player, please contact licensing@catersnews.com or call +44 (0)121 616 1100 / +1 646 380 1615.

Good morning Paint-Makers! I'm still not sure how the platform works to allow the course members to see it - let me know if you have any trouble opening the video on Tools of the Trade and I'll try to figure out what happened. ~ Madison

I'm so happy to see all of you here and I can't wait to get started! We'll go over the supply list in a few days, and then on Sunday I want to host our first Zoom meeting to do questions/answers and coffee-break chat. If you can't make those meetings and have questions in the meantime, just post them to the discussion board! Also... bear with me please while I get over the fear of seeing myself on camera. I love working with pigments, and the land itself, and really want to do a good job at sharing what I do. Until my new tripod gets here (should be in time for the 2nd lesson), I'm just making do with what equipment I have. And if you watched my video on the About page, you'll see that it isn't going to work long-term, hahaha. At any rate, I want this to be fun and it definitely won't be 'formal'. So feel free to make comments here in the discussion groups, email, or text me if you want to! Happy New Year! ~ Madison