Hello! I'm Heather Smith Jones, an artist living and working in Lawrence, Kansas. I work in mixed media on paper, painting, photography, and letterpress and recently taught in an arts-based preschool for fifteen years. At this journal I post news events or happenings. For regular posting please visit my Dailies page. Thanks for stopping by and having an interest in my work.

My Art:

Works on Paper

Paintings

Pinhole

Photography

Blue Sparrow Press

INSTAGRAM

Let me introduce you to this sweet baby. Our daughter, Mira, was born in mid-June and she is wonderful. 💖 We then spent two weeks in NICU and she’s still on home oxygen but she’s doing quite well. The only art I have made since then are those b&w drawings for her to look at. She particularly loves kitty. _______________________________________ ©️Heather Smith Jones

Folded cards that I designed with my painting imagery just arrived and I’m really pleased with them! I needed cards to use for thank you’s and had fun the other afternoon arranging scanned images of my art into this layout. @mpixfans is so quick, I ordered these Wednesday and they got here today. Seriously fast. Plus this matte signature paper is nice and thick, and looks right for the watercolor and gouache painting. So, I better start writing... ________________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #heathersmithjones #gouache #gouachepainting #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #carveouttimeforart #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #passioncolorjoy #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern

Gouache, black micron and white gelly roll pens on this summery feeling Monday. Happy new week! _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook2018 #heathersmithjones #watercolor #gouache #gouachepainting #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #carveouttimeforart #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #dscolor #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #drawing

Working in an analogous color palette on this rainy spring Wednesday. _____________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook2018 #heathersmithjones #watercolor #gouache #gouachepainting #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #carveouttimeforart #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #dscolor #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #drawing

I began today’s more muted entry by drawing lines with china marker and colored pencil, then incorporated watercolor layers and gouache for opacity. _________________________________________________ ©Heather Smith Jones #hsmithjonessketchbook2018 #heathersmithjones #watercolor #gouache #gouachepainting #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #abstraction #createeveryday #sketchbook #abstractart #doitfortheprocess #ihavethisthingwithcolor #ilovecolor #makerslife #artistlife #aquietstyle #momentsofmine #carveouttimeforart #makersmovement #creativityfound #artoftheday #artcollective #courageouscreative #dscolor #natureinspired #shapes #allthecolors #pattern #drawing

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more noticing...

January 04, 2008

Thank you for your encouraging words and for visiting our new "home" for the Noticing Project. We had a great first day and I'm so thrilled to be collaborating with Alicia on this endeavor!

happy friday & weekend friends!