Hello all,
I am Danielle Tanksley and I started painting with watercolors around 2014. I was in college and was walking through a craft store with my mom when I saw a watercolor landscape how to book. We talked about it and she told me she would buy it for me if I wanted to learn.
Those first few years that I would pick up a paintbrush here and there were years of playing around and splashing color on a page.
Then in 2017 my first child was born. Shortly after she was born I was struggling with identity, worth, stress, grief, and anxiety.
I had a moment where I realized that I didn’t want to spend the next 30 years drowning out and avoiding my feelings by scrolling endlessly through my phone or binge-watching TV.
That was when started practicing painting in 2017. In 2017 it was a far off dream to paint watercolor cards and sell them. Last summer that dream came true at the Canyon Farmer’s Market.
So from 2014 when I first picked up a paintbrush to now in 2024 I have grown as my art and approach to art has also grown and changed.
In the last several years I have learned that the Lord will use all kinds of ways to heal our hearts. Watercolor is just one of the ways that Jesus has improved the garden of my heart.
