Welcome
Meet Cara
I am obsessed by color. I am a sucker for the drama of striking light. I keep being drawn to the lush fullness of fruit. I’m soothed by looking at flowers. I think food can be as beautiful as anything else. I want only the simplicity of watercolor – painting pure pigment on cotton paper. I love to make these paintings.

podcast
Watercolor Conversations
For four years I faithfully wrote weekly journal entries for my blog. Now and then I go back to what I’ve written and think that some of this huge body of content could be given new life – but the impulse was to use my speaking voice this go-round.
Watercolor Conversations with Cara Brown is the result. I am re-visiting some of these journal entries – sharing the stories, seeking, and inspiration in my written words – along with whatever else occurs to me to say at this point in time.

art stories
Journal
April, 22, 2019 – Honoring Home
On Saturday the commissioned diptych I painted at the start of the year went home. Chris and Bob came over to see the piece for the first time and take it down south with them. Here's the story from my portfolio gallery: Chris and Bob are dear friends from when we...
November 14, 2018 – A dream, a word and a portrait
Towards the end of last year, as I sat to write, I was coming up empty. Looking around inside for what to say there were neither words nor the energy to dig deeper. 2017 was a big year – the summer was a sprint from a family Europe trip to remodeling our kitchen and...
December 6, 2017 – Awaiting what is to come
In case you didn’t notice, I didn’t post last week. The off-the-top reason was that it was my birthday and I was very busy receiving one phone call after another from my loved ones, singing and celebrating me - in the middle of what ended up as a whole birthday...