One Day Retreat: Feb 1

One Day Retreat: Feb 1

Join Kristen McQuillin & Tracey Northcott for a relaxing and creative day of insightful art, observation, and reflection in rural Chiba.  Saturday, February 1, 202511:00 – 16:00Kamogawa, Chiba Schedule 11:00 pickup at JR Awa-Kamogawa station11:30...
Coming (not too) Soon: More Workbooks!

Coming (not too) Soon: More Workbooks!

One of my 2024 goals is to publish Drawing Meditation exercises. We have three workbooks now, but I have scores of exercises and meditations to share. Workbooks are my favorite medium, so that is what I plan. But they are old-fashioned and don’t sell well. Every...
Artober 2021: 31-day art challenge

Artober 2021: 31-day art challenge

Want to add more art to your autumn? I’ve got 31 creative prompts scheduled for each day in October on our Facebook page and on Instagram. Some prompts are simply text, others may have instructions, examples, or even a video. How to do the challenge The only...

Creating happy moments with yoga and drawing

In addition to teaching art & meditation, I lead a yoga class every morning. On the 3rd Sunday of the month, I combine Drawing Meditation and Satoyama Yoga. Today we created fanciful drawings based on our movement in Sun Salutations and Warrior Flow. Elephant...
Watercolor universes

Watercolor universes

I have a special request for an upcoming private session and today I spent some time playing with the materials. My lovely student has watercolor pencils and wants to do a cosmos sky. I’ve created night skies in acrylic pant and in colored pencil but not in...
Connecting with Canada

Connecting with Canada

“Greetings appropriate to time of day,” says a friend of mine when he connects on Zoom calls. I felt that myself in today’s class, which was a private Tangle Art session with a community group in Canada. For them, it was Tuesday evening; for me,...