Kaaren Poole

I’m always amazed at the intensity of color many colored pencil artists achieve. I’ve never been able to do that, and I’m not sure why. A...

Here are my finished three bunnies, but it took a while to get here! When I don’t have energy for anything else, it seems that I can find...

After interrupting myself with a few other projects, I got back to my fox, sparrow, and flowers this week, and it’s finished! Those...

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...