Carol Aust's Painting a Day Blog

I have sets of art postcards that I sell in sets of 50 and are used in all sorts of ways. My friend, Jane, sent me these photos and wrote,  ...

 For Lent this year I proposed an installation at my church, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, of Christ embracing a cluster of self po...

  Today I received this email from a collector named Justin:  Recently, I acquired It’s Going to be All Right at the Studio Gallery auction ...

  It's my last day at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. 14 days, 10 paintings, 2 cases of Covid. I am so grateful for the time here, even wi...

Dorland Mountain Artist Colony is a cluster of cottages and studios perched on a mountain overlooking Temecula, California. The area is dry ...

 A road trip is a different type of creative journey. Unlike a residency, where I delve deeply into the quiet and paint without distraction,...

My paintings go through many stages. This one started by discovering a 40-year-old canvas of mine in a friend's mother's house. We w...

 I recently had this article published in Radix Magazine. ...

 When I was a girl, my dad would take me and my brother and sister to San Francisco once a year. It was a big event, worthy of white lace an...

 I am in New York right now. I am on the prowl for new inspiration. It's been a whirlwind. We flew into JFK on Saturday night and were p...

Getting gallery representation can feel overwhelming, especially when looking for places far from home. I was recently talking with some art...

 Over the years I have experimented with different ways of making my art accessible to the general public, art appreciators who might not ha...

 We have hosted many art salons over the years. These have always been a little funkier than the slick salons posted on-line with women in p...

 I wrestle a lot with creative block. When I'm going through it, I feel like a failure. I procrastinate and am hyper-critical of what I ...

 People who know me well know that I wrestle with this question--why, in this broken world, should people continue creating visual art and m...