Exploring Color, Writing & Creativity

Nita Leland's blog is about her creative and family life, including book reviews, art links and essays on color, creativity, watercolor, writing, teaching and other subjects.

Saturday, February 17, 2018

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My 2018 color clinic will be at Evendale Cultural Center near Cincinnati, a great workshop location. All mediums are welcome, but most demos...
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Sunday, July 09, 2017

Color Clinic Coming to Evendale Cultural Center

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  A 3-day workshop in July with Nita Leland, Color Clinic offers you an opportunity to create unique artwork with improved knowledge of pa...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Why I Love Artists Who Love Color

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Well, I never expected months to pass before I returned to my blog. After I last wrote, several weeks went by before my editor picked up ...
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Monday, February 22, 2016

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So, here's how it goes as the deadline approaches. All my ducks are in a row, except for two that are missing. They are small illustrati...
Friday, February 19, 2016

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Well, I hope you haven't been holding your breath waiting for that update I promised. I found I could't write about the book and do ...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Big Smiles--Exploring Color to be Revised, Updated, Launched in 2016

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Yesterday I met with my favorite editor, Stefanie Laufersweiler, about the book we're working on now--our fourth for North Light Books...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

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After a busy few months since my last post, I'm ready to talk about some new adventures in writing and self-publishing. But First-- Two...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

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New 3-day workshop coming up November 7-9. "Adventures in Creativity" at Evendale Cultural Arts Center , near Cincinnati, Ohio. Ea...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

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Jacqueline Sullivan's Color Letter --Fantastic Resources
Monday, April 21, 2014

A Watermedia Collage Series on Trees

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One of my students in Exploring Watercolor has been working on an interesting series. Jane let snow fall on wet watercolor to make textured ...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Adventures in Creativity, Collage, & Water Media May 5-9

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Ocean City Center for the Arts, Maryland. Email Ann Terrell Free your creative spirit in Nita Leland's workshop, where the emphasi...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Meet me in Las Vegas!

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Summer is flying by, but there's still time to sign up for my workshop. It's all about color... What's on YOUR palette?
Sunday, June 02, 2013

Big Event at Hithergreen Center

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This is the week of Hithergreen Center's gigantic garage sale. Thur. June 6 and Friday June 7 are the big days. I'm really excite...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Exploring Watercolor Exhibit at Hithergreen Center

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Here's a new exhibit by my Exploring Watercolor Class . Please stop by Hithergreen Center to see the original paintings! One of the wa...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Rising Sun Collage Workshop 2012

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Last weekend's New Creative Collage Techniques workshop at Rising Sun, Indiana, was fantastic. Here's one example. Go to the work...
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Building a Platform

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You don't need a hammer and nails for this one. Robert Lee Brewer is helping writers build a platform for their marketing. He calls this...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Rising Sun Indiana Collage Workshop

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Join me for New Creative Collage Techniques – April 21 & 22 at Rising Sun Art Workshops . Learn lots of collage techniques and see how ...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

Painting Like Seurat

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Barb Stork, another Hithergreen instructor, assigned her students a project to paint different sections of Georges Seurat's great pointi...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Confident Color Workshop was a blast!

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I had a great time in Ft. Lauderdale last week. This workshop for the Gold Coast Watercolor Society is on my list of all-time favorites! The...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Keep Eyes Open for Georgia Mansur!

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This Australian artist is creating a whirlwind in the watermedia world. She has a custom palette just released from Daniel Smith and when...
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Sunday, January 08, 2012

Two new art instruction DVDs

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These two videos were filmed in August, a month or so before the new collage book was released. I felt like I was under a lot of pressure, b...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Free Collage Demo

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Here is the first step in my creation of "Quintana Roo" collage, which appears in New Creative Collage Techniques on page 144. ...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Hithergreen Center has a new look.

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Friends visit in the recently updated reception area. Hithergreen members Fran Doster and Dwight Glover donated funds to purchase the new co...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Some photos from my book signing

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Books & Co., Dec. 8, 2011 We had a nice crowd of nearly 50 people for my demo and book signing of New Creative Collage Techniques . I e...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

American Chronicle on New Creative Collage Techniques

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American Chronicle | Leland takes another giant leap for ´Artkind´

Thursday, December 8, 7 p.m. at Books & Co.

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Art-to-Art Palette features my book signing ! I'm going to demo an Egyptian theme collage and I hope to see you there. Thanks to AAP pub...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Book signing coming up soon

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I'm working on a collage demo for this event. Come on by at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 8 at Books & Co. in the Greene Towne Center, 44...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Thanks and Kudos

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I'd like to thank these artists, whose work appears in New Creative Collage Techniques : Annis Allen, Donna Baspaly, Karen Becker Benede...
Saturday, November 05, 2011

Updating Web Site and Blog

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I've been at it for hours, but I have only myself to blame. When my Web editing program was discontinued I let it slide, then I got a ne...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

Ohio Collage Society show at the Cannery tonight

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I'm excited about visiting this show, which I judged for awards to be given at 7 p.m. tonight (Nov. 4) during the First Friday art walk....
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Exploring Watercolor 3-Way Challenge

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Here is some of the work from a recent series on painting a subject three different ways: realistic, stylistic, and abstract. They caught o...
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I've been painting and teaching watercolor since the 70s. My bestselling books on color, collage and creativity are published by North Light Books. Please visit my website www.nitaleland.com .
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