#tracibautistaCOLOR STUDIO NOTES: OCTOBER 2026 Hello creative friend!! There are watercolor and ink swatches drying on one studio table, textured handmade fiber papers spread across another, and a hot pink weaving still sitting on the loom. That pretty much sums up what my studio has looked like lately. I've been bouncing between handcrafted color, paper, fiber, and all kinds of mixed-media experiments. Designing the VINTAGE ALOHA collection. Making something. Testing it. Changing one thing....
10 days ago • 3 min read
Hello creative friend!! I’ve been spending a lot of time at my paint-making studio the past couple of weeks, mixing and pouring the handcrafted watercolors and for the paint subscriptions and Collector’s Boxes. There’s something so meditative about making handcrafted paint. It’s a slow, intentional process of mixing pigments, swatching out the colors, checking the consistency, and making little adjustments until I get the color just right. And while I’m working, I have my VINTAGE ALOHA...
18 days ago • 3 min read
Hello creative friend!! I’ve been pulling out past collections, looking through old swatches, and flipping through paint-making journals as I prepare for Thursday’s #tracibautistaCOLOR anniversary LIVE. It has been so much fun seeing how the color stories, products, and studio experiments have evolved over the past nine years. #tracibautistaCOLOR handcrafted watercolor pans & tiles I’ll share more of those past collections in a moment, but first, I wanted to take you a little closer into some...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hello creative friend!! Yesterday, I shared the first peek at the story behind my new ninth-anniversary collection. Today, NINE: VINTAGE ALOHA is officially here! 🌺🎨 Nine years ago today, on August 31, 2017, I shared the photo below on Instagram. It showed tiny bottles from my color lab and announced that #tracibautistaCOLOR was coming soon. I first learned how to make watercolor paint in 2010 from my good friend and artist Karen Michel. Then, in 2017, I decided kind of on a whim that I...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
#tracibautistaCOLOR Studio Notes July 2026 Monotypes with #tracibautistaCOLOR PIGMENT BARS & WAX printmaking bars Reader... Hi creative friend! There’s a silicone mat on my counter, the kind meant for keeping food warm, set to 176 degrees. A piece of rice paper sits on top, warm to the touch. I scribble a #tracibautistaCOLOR PIGMENT BAR onto the surface and flip it over onto the melted wax, roll a brayer across, and lift a multicolor line of wax at once. This process is an artful, meditative...
3 months ago • 2 min read
#tracibautistaCOLOR Studio Notes July 2026 Inspiration. PLAY. Resources. Marks. Monotypes with #tracibautistaCOLOR PIGMENT BARS & WAX printmaking bars Reader... Hi creative friend! There’s a stack of WAX painted papers on my studio table right now and I keep walking past it just to look. Deep Midnight Blue. Vibrant bright fuchsia. Pickled Plum. Abstract mark making and freestyle URBAN FLORALS. A mix of colorful layered wax paintings and monotypes pulled from a heated mat over the last couple...
3 months ago • 4 min read
#tracibautistaCOLOR Studio Notes The Monthly Edit July 2026 Inspiration. PLAY. Resources. Marks. #tracibautistaCOLOR PIGMENT BARS + WAX medium + oil paint Reader... It’s Thursday afternoon and my studio table is a happy disaster. Hand painted swatch cards drying, a large protein smoothie somewhere behind the wax, Confetti Cakes and PIGMENT BARS in boxes ready to package, stacks of USPS priority mail ready to be shipped, Indie curled up in the one patch of sun on the floor. I’ve been...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Reader... Yesterday I spent the morning watching the golden light rise over the water here in Hawaii, sand still on my toes, my travel swatch journal and a medley of #tracibautistaCOLOR URBAN PETALS collection spread across my beach blanket, Aloha Collection bags full of my fave mixed media travel art supplies, and multiple sketchbooks laid out on the sand. I filmed a little video while I was painting and sketching on the beach, you’ll get a peek at my traveling art supply kit and the...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Reader... Hi creative friend, It’s here. 💌 The NEW wax products are live in the shop right now. You can shop the whole URBAN PETALS: Concrete Bloom wax collection today. Everything is a pre-order, hand-poured in small batches. The sets are curing in the studio and shipping late June. Keep scrolling for the full story (and a little something to PLAY with). I have a special gift just for my email subscribers… SAVE $5 when you spend $75! There are colorful tins of wax medium sitting on my...
4 months ago • 2 min read