DIANE O'CONNOR

In the spring of 2024, I took a class called, “Loose Tulips” with Ali Kay. (alikaystudio.com)

Above: Monochromatic Birches - Mixed Media on a 20 x 24 stretched canvas. Below: Golden Grove, 18 x 24 - Another piece created using the...

This fall the colors faded fast, the temperature dipped, and everything became very dark and gray much earlier than usual —it even...

Fall Designing & Decorating I wanted to create something to hang above my sink for the fall season, so I started with a cradled wood...

I felt like creating something. Something bright. Something textured. It was fall and I loved the vibrant color all around me. the...

After completing my first piece during my Fabulous Florals class with Elizabeth St Hilare, I decided I wanted to do something in a blue...

April - May 2020. I was surfing the net for inspiration for mixed media floral design, and found that Elizabeth St Hilare was offering an...

I've been having some fun picking up prints or mass-produced art pieces and enhancing them so they are more my style . . . sometimes it...

I heard about a children's play at our local library Lil' Pea. There was a call for artists who had any type of "peacock art" that could be

I'm a major "Maximizer" . . . always seeing even MORE potential in things that are already pretty great . . . According to...

I wanted to try a mixed media piece using Modge Podge on 1/4" birch plywood (one side smooth). I bought a 4'x'8' at Home Depot and had...

"Inside - Out." This has been a theme in my life. In the 80's when I was teaching art at my children's Christian school I kept praying...

This Christmas, Bob & I decided we would create presents for our 11 grands that would help us pass on our some of our values. As a...

Last year I repurposed a "peachy oil painting" that someone was discarding. I turned it into a scenes with birch trees. It never felt...

April, 2015 Bob & I were in St. George Utah visiting his sister, Anne, who makes beautiful designs out of gourds. I had a fun time...

Last week was Christian Life Fellowship's 35th anniversary, and I was asked to help with a few displays of photos to celebrate the rich hist

My daughter-in-law Carey saw this photo on Pinterest and thought it would be the perfect look for her new o