DIANE O'CONNOR

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 is in the air! The days are beautiful and you can tell that the sun is getting lower in the sky. I love these last days of summer!...

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