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
November 1, 2017 – Making friends with challenge
My hope and intention when I decided to hike 60 miles up and back to the summit of Mount Whitney this summer was to give myself a physical test. I wanted to know the strength in my body. Though it did take stamina and I ran out of energy on day 5 because I didn’t...
October 25, 2017 – A story of two bears
Annie and Eric's two bears. Last weekend poking around online, I came upon a New York Times interview of Tom Hanks. It’s entertaining and charming – like he is. He’s just written a book of short stories – Nora Ephron was his writing coach; she admonished: “voice,...
October 19, 2017 – Resurrecting beauty
I took this photo on the side of Highway 12 in Sonoma. It just happens that I'm painting it now. We’ve been living with wildfires in California for as long as I can remember. The house my family lived in from the time I was a toddler was across the street from Marin...