On her Instagram.com/artgirlbette/ account Bette Pernal describes herself as “a watercolor/multimedia artist, art instructor, crafter, creative soul, lover of painting and making everything, and owner of Easel on Down Paint Parties.”

The Barnegat artist shares a studio with musician husband Tom Pernal. Before the pandemic emergency, she was well known to patrons of The Local in Ship Bottom and Reynolds Garden Shop in Manahawkin, where she gave art lessons in everything from painting a tote bag…