The new Pantone Color of the Year is Viva Magenta, which I am delighted about! I've been painting with this influence for years because of it's vibrancy and warmth. Pantone says the color is "expressive of a new signal of strength" and that they drew "inspiration from nature and what is real" to [Read More]
Remembering Putting on the New
It's been four years since I lovingly said goodbye to my online magazine and blog, Putting on the New. This site, as some of you may remember, ran for over five years and hosted a variety of Christian women, all writing about their individual walk. The theme was centered around Ephesans 4:24, [Read More]
How About a Holiday Giveaway!
Update!Entries are now closed because we have a winner! As always I used random.org to pull the winner's number from the comments. I always try to do something fun around the holidays, and this time I've got a giveaway especially for my newsletter subscribers!This fun handbag contains my "4 Seasons" [Read More]
Lovingly Handling Those That Hurt You
Before I was a full-time artist I was a writer for places like the NYTimes and NBC. Did you know that? It was a blessing I didn't appreciate at the time. 
(Like most of my blessings!)One of the things I wrote about was relationships, including a five-year stint writing about friendship. That I got [Read More]
This I Believe Podcast Popularity
It is amazing what God has done with my "This I Believe" essay. Today I came across a podcast listing, where my recorded essay is listed as the 3rd most popular on This I Believe, which is incredible given the amount of celebrities on the site! Mine is just ahead of John McCain's. (What! 
)This [Read More]
Flashback Friday Sketches
#FF Sketches from when I was a kid. Subject matter was still girls and birds. Back then I begged for the big box of crayons (64, with the sharpener on the back!) and would rejoice anytime I could get my hands on watercolors. I worked a lot with pencil on paper, because it's all I had.Eventually I [Read More]
Art Show International Finalist
I'm excited to announce that my painting "Bohemian Girl" has received a finalist award in the Art Show International Gallery's most recent art competition "4th COLOR."The theme of this international juried art competition is COLOR. As humans, we see the narrowest range of wavelengths of the vast [Read More]
Some Roads on the Farm/Art Tour
Got to see my poem “Some Roads” painted on roadside signs along the Farm/Art Tour in Sauk County. What a beautiful day to view the Wisconsin countryside. Farm Art Tour from Cherie Burbach on Vimeo. [Read More]
Sign Up for My Mailing List
Thanks to everyone who signed up for my newsletter list this past weekend at the craft show I was at. Many of you sign up that way, and some of you do it through social media, and some of you might be right here wondering what I'm talking about! If that's you, you can sign up right here! [Read More]
