February 2026: Monthly Print Club

January 29, 2026

February asks a lot of us — the novelty of the new year has worn off, the cold lingers, but you can start to feel the days getting a little longer. This month's Print Club piece was created with that tension in mind: something warm and expansive to counter the quiet weight of late winter.

About the Artwork

The February print features a mountain landscape painted in warm oranges, purples, and blues — dramatic peaks catching light against a vast dusk sky. The composition leans into texture and color, offering both intimacy and distance depending on how you look at it.

Painted in oil pastel, this piece is built from loose, expressive strokes that resolve into form when you step back. Up close, it's blobs of color and texture. From a distance, it comes alive as ridges, shadows, and glowing slopes. The warm tones against cool blues create that quiet, comforting feeling of a winter sunset on snow.

Why Mountains

If you've been following along on socials (and if you're not, you're missing my daily painting chaos), you've seen me diving headfirst into landscapes these past few weeks. It started with cliffs — dramatic, rocky formations — and mountains felt like a natural next step. They share that same textured, dramatic quality, just different vistas.

Landscapes aren't new territory for me. When I first fell in love with painting in high school, I was obsessed with Bob Ross. His mountains, the texture, the way light gets swallowed by dark ravines and bounces off snow — I couldn't get enough. But when I came back to painting this past year, I started with florals because, honestly, I just love them. They let me explore technique and color in ways that felt exciting.

Now I'm taking those lessons and creating something even more textured, expressive, and mine.