Sarah Florer

My wine painting collection is finally here! I’ve had a lot of fun painting with coffee and I wanted to try painting with wine as well.

This collection of six wine themed paintings are all painted using wine from local winery Barrel Oak Winery in Delaplane, VA. Each painting is available as prints and greeting cards.

A bleed in watercolor is when your paintbrush touches an area that is still wet on your painting, and the color from your brush bleeds into the wet area.

Bleeds can be a fun way to use the natural unpredictable characteristics of watercolor, but bleeds can be frustrating when they happen on accident. In this post, I’ll give some tips on avoiding bleeds, how to use them in your watercolor paintings, and how to fix them if one happens on accident.

I’ve had a lot of requests for Christian themed coffee paintings. After a lot of brainstorming and work, they’re finally ready. Each of these was painted using actual coffee from Haymarket Coffee Company.

These are all available as prints (8” by 10” and 5” by 7”) and greeting cards. I print and package all of my prints and greeting cards myself. For my prints, I use archival quality paper with pigment based inks. The paper has a baryta coating that gives the print a nice luster finish. My greeting cards are printed on 60lb premium matte archival quality paper with pigment based ink and come with a matching envelopes.

Blooms are irregular patterns and hard edges, sometimes with a cauliflower shape, that appear within a painted area in a watercolor painting. The opposite of a smooth wash, a bloom is characterized by uneven color.

In this post, I’m sharing all of my thoughts on blooms: why they occur, how you can use them, how to avoid them, how to make them on purpose, and how to get rid them.