Creation in action

This will be a supportive and positive environment for creating successful art with guidance and no critique unless requested. [...]

Mary Helsaple art is featured in Exhibition at Herberger Theater in Phoenix from February 2 to February 25, at 222 E Monroe St, Phoenix, AZ, United States, 85004. Her painting, 'Saguaro Cactus Meet-Up', is also the featured painting on the cover of the Herberger promotional brochure. Birds, Bugs & Blooms Exhibit This nature-based exhibit is just in time to think about Spring. Featuring work of 23 Arizona artists inspired by the beauty of the natural world. [...]

Watercolor Studio Classes Watercolor artist Mary Helsaple is available for One-on One art instruction at her studio or yours.  Explore - How, Why, and What are the next steps along you creative journey.  This class intensive is to help the advanced or beginning artist discover exercises and methods to move art to the next level.   As a mentor, I meet the person where they are creatively (without judgment) and share options, resources and methods to explore all your creative ideas. We each have blind spots, and areas to improve that get us to the next level. Let me be your supportive guide to [...]

 Mary Helsaple: A Work in Nature By Natasha Heinz, Photos by Daulton Venglar Reproduced from the Lifestyles of Sedona, Spring 2019 Mary Helsaple's studio is surrounded by red rocks. Shades of orange, grayish green and brown encircle the house. The inside, however, is completely different. Huge watercolor paintings with splashes of bright red and yellow hang on almost every wall, depicting environments that could never be found around Sedona: Colorful tropical forests, which she has seen during numerous travels throughout the Americas. A nature lover, Helsaple traveled alongside husband Neal Williams to Florida to see pelicans, to Yucatan to see Flamingos, to southeastern Peru and western [...]

Join 20 Plus Sedona  artists on Nov. 8th, 11am - 5pm for The Sedona Women, Fine Arts & Crafts Fair at the Elks Lodge, in West Sedona from  - with the help of  my  'Bag Lady' friend, Sandy Immerso, we will be featuring "one of a kind" - Hand painted, natural canvas tote bags.  These large sturdy 15"x 18"x 5" bags are unique vivid acrylic and fabric painted designs that show Sedona's Cathedral Rock backdrop with Hummingbirds, Ravens, Cardinals, Orioles, Roadrunner, and Javelina of the North American Southwest .   Along with my lots of new Notecards, small wildlife giclee prints and [...]

  I have been marketing my new reference book “Physics of Watercolor” this summer and planning for some late summer instruction workshops for those who have purchased my book.  In addition, I now have designed a small, portable watercolor travel kits that include my book and comes complete with all the supplies you need to create a beautiful trip journal. For years, I kept a portable Watercolor Journal Kit in my car for when I needed to take a break from work, waiting for a friend or just wanting to stop and capture that stunning blend of colors at sunset.  I was even able to paint a [...]

Mary Helsaple Trouble in Paradise (Amazon Rainforest) 1994, Watercolor on Paper 36 x 48 inches Collection of the Artist © Mary Helsaple    Early in my career, I loved the mechanics of printmaking, and drawing and I began to create visual narratives about my world. My desire was to communicate these thoughts through drawings that represented the impact of humanity. I was resolving on a larger scale, thoughts about the mechanics of religion, politics, community, government, corporations etc. I drew situations that represented where an individual is linked by inter-relationships to the greater humanity of the world. How would I ‘negotiate’ [...]

Environmental Impact exhibition featuring Sedona Artist Mary Helsaple opens in the Stauth Museum. [...]

Sedona watercolor artist Mary Helsaple is featured in the new America's Parks traveling exhibition.     Event Dates: 12/4/2015 - 1/31/2016 Location: Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum Logan KS   Event Dates: 12/4/2015 - 1/31/2016 Location: Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum Logan KS hansenmuseum.org     An exhibit of America’s Parks is scheduled to launch in December, 2015. It is the third edition of America’s Parks. Artworks in this exhibition are drawn principally from artists who participated in the first edition of America’s Parks, though some were added because they were award-winners in the second America’s Parks exhibition. Wikipedia, the free, on-line encyclopedia, defines a park [...]

    Written by Zachary Jernigan     Red Rock News, Sedona, AZ    November 12th, 2015 According to artist Mary Helsaple, when you painted with simple watercolors as a child you were in fact witnessing a complicated thing: "The marriage between brush, pigment and paper."According to Helsaple, her recently released book "Physics of Watercolor: A Guide to the Techniques in Watercolor Painting" was named in recognition of how each element comes together. Unlike oil paints and acrylics, nothing is left behind on the paper but the pigment; as the water evaporates, any number of things can happen to impact the painting.Standing behind her display [...]