Kaaren Poole

After a little side trail about chinoiserie, I returned to my latest art journal spread with my original intention—a profusion of frames....

I thought I’d continue to work on my fox and florals painting and that that’s what I’d be posting about this week. But instead,...

Here’s a new project I’ve been working on. I began it a few weeks ago with a drawing. I’d been watching a few videos by Suzanne Allard....

The parakeets find the perfect camouflage among the colorful tropical foliage. Don’t they look happy? Appropriately, this journal spread...

It took a lot of creative courage, but I finally got to adding the first stage of the flowers to my portrait of Nikki. As I said last...

I started this piece with great enthusiasm, but it was soon replaced by dismay. It was to be a great new adventure. But after this start,...

I’ve been working on illustrations for my next Milkweed Christmas book and wondered if you’d be interested in seeing and hearing how an...

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised to encounter trouble once I ventured outside my color comfort zone. Purple, red, and orange: what...

With this drawing, I was trying to accomplish a full value range with pencil, and I think I succeeded. There are areas that are the...

I was enjoying drawing with Ida Anderson Lang’s 2025 New Year’s Drawing Retreat so much that I just kept on drawing after the retreat was...