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One Step Forward…

No, no, this isn’t another post about feet. I’m sure we all saw enough of those yesterday. This post is … More

attitude, avoidable mistakes, choices, colors, decisions, greens, mistakes, mixing colors, unavoidable mistakes, watercolor paper

Practice, Practice, Practice

We all know how to get to Carnegie Hall, right? I suppose we could change that old joke a bit … More

Carnegie Hall, Exercises, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Practice, Techniques, Watercolor

Black and White

I love idioms. You know, those little phrases that work their way into the language whether they make any sense … More

basic pencil skills, black and white, Charcoal, Conte, graphite, graphite drawing

Clouds

Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I’ve looked at … More

Both Sides Now, Clouds, Joni Mitchell, Pastels, Skies, Watercolor, Watercolor Artist magazine, William Wright

Works of Art, or…?

Every morning when my husband gets to work, he gives me a call. We usually talk about the day he has … More

artistic playthings, experimentation, having fun, Pan pastels, randomness, works of art

Patience Is a Virtue

I’ve never been a patient person. When I want something, I want it now — a fact that Amazon Prime … More

birds, Colored pencil drawing, lessons, Oil Pastels, patience, snowy egret, works in progress

Just Pull Out the Trees

I recently bought a beautiful book called The Art of Watercolor, one of many art instruction books published by Walter … More

brushes, forest, Kolan Peterson, Landscape, Misty River, The Art of Watercolor, Trees, understanding concepts, Walter Foster books, Watercolor, watercolor techniques

Thoughts on Drawing from Nature

When I first began drawing, I had flowers on my mind. In looking back over the years, it seems many … More

Botanical Drawing, Flowers, Kate Berry, Mother Nature

Measuring Success

In recent days, I’ve completed a number of “successful” art works. Of course, any real artists who visit this site … More

Barron's Professional Drawing Class series, Learning process, Matt Fussell, Oil Pastels, Practice, Sketching and Illustrating Birds, Success, The Virtual Instructor, Watercolor Workshop

Alla Prima

I came across the term alla prima in the March issue of Artist’s magazine. I couldn’t recall ever hearing it … More

Al Gury, Alla prima, Autumn Canopy, Bob Ross, Daler Rowney watercolors, Direct painting, Landscape painting, Oil Painting, Pennsylvania Acadmy of the Fine Arts, Strathmore Watercolor paper, Watercolor

The Importance of Making Mistakes

Today’s art project was a disaster. Luckily, I learned early on in my art explorations that making mistakes was an … More

Art supplies, Canson Mix Media paper, Cray-Pas Expressionists, Daler Rowney, Grumbacher Opaque Watercolors, Making mistakes, Matt Fussell, Oil Pastels, Sakura, Secrets to Drawing video course, Strathmore Gray Toned paper, The Virtual Instructor, Thinner

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