While strolling around the web today, I noticed that Nita Leland is blogging. In addition to authoring several popular art-instruction books for North Light, she's also contributed a number of articles to the magazine. In fact, we debuted our Creativity Workshop column with an exerpt from Leland's The New Creative Artist: A Guide to Developing Your Creative Spirit. With the recent success of the column (the entries for the June installment of the column positively flooded our inbox), it strikes me as fitting to take a look back at the column's genesis. So, let's take a look at what Leland is doing these days: She's got a new book in the works (check out her pre-pub offer) and she's taking a look at what her readers are doing with her Photoshopping tips. Visit her archives for some insightful ramblings on gouache.