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Study Light, Study Right

I was a good student when I was in school. I loved learning. I still do. I enjoyed reading assignments…

Daily practice, Joy Ting, Still Life Studies

And The Winners Are…

I picked up my “Birch Forest” painting from the Tiny Art Show on Friday, and while I was there I…

Cass County Library, Quilling, Tiny Art Show

Painting Pears

Oops! Some of you have already seen this post. After writing it, I accidentally published it on Friday instead of scheduling…

Anna Mason, Desserts, Watercolor

Art Quiz: The Answer is Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov

I’d never heard of Rayonism before… which is hardly surprising. I don’t have much background in art history, and what…

Avant-Garde art, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, Rayonism, Russian abstract art

Art Quiz: Question 55

I’m going to say this… it seems to me that the longer this “Art Quiz” goes on, the harder the…

Art History, Art Quiz, Rayonism

What a Fun Little Art Show!

Yesterday morning my husband and I visited our local library, scene of the current “Tiny Art” exhibition sponsored by the…

Cass County Library, Tiny Art Show

The Zorn Palette

I first heard of the “Zorn” palette through one of our area art clubs. Our HFAA group recently put on…

Anders Zorn, Limited palettes, Zorn Palette

It Ain’t Me, Babe

If you’re old like me, you’ll remember this Bob Dylan classic. “It Ain’t Me, Babe” is said to be one…

Art Media, Art supplies, Bob Dylan, Collage

My “Dazzling Dahlia”

Remember that sad-looking overgrown dahlia I drew last month? Oh, it was depressing. That oil pastel painting was — in…

Dahlia, Oil Pastels, Paul Rubens, Sennelier

Try It, You’ll Like It

Try It. You’ll like it.  Those were popular words in advertising a few decades back. One of my favorite “try…

colors, Faith Evan-Sills, Gathering Inspirations, Intuitive Abstracts, Patterns

Art Quiz: The Answer is Simultaneism

This turned out to be one of the most interesting questions in the quiz, in my opinion. I’d never heard…

Guillame Apollinaire, Michel Chevreul, Orphism, Robert Delaunay, Simultaneism, Sonia Delaunay

Art Quiz: Question 54

Happy Mother’s Day! Even as you’re celebrating today and honoring the women in your life, here’s an art quiz question…

Art History, Art Quiz, Orphism

Daily Practice

We all know that daily drawing will help us improve our skills. Or daily painting, or pouring, or whatever form…

Creative Bug, Daily practice, Drawing challenges, Inktober, Joy Ting, Lily Sol

Chinese Paintings: Then and now

Originally posted on gigi-hawaii:
I love art and art history. I wish I had majored in art history instead of…

Broadening My Horizons

I’m having fun in my art studio these days. After deciding one day to simply pretend I had some natural artistic…

Cray-Pas Expressionists, Daler Rowney, Mungyo Gallery Pastels, Pentel Oil Pastels, Sakura, Sennelier

Collage Takes Courage

I love collage art — seeing it, that is, not doing it. I’ve simply never been good at making collages.…

Collage Art, Elisabeth Sherwood, Eva Mout, Karen Stamper, Mou Saha, Tiffany Sharpe

The Birch Forest

Yesterday was the final day of the Student Art Show sponsored by our HFAA club. I went to the library…

Cass County Library, Oil Pastels, Tiny Art

“I’m Starting to Like the Weird Stuff”

I’ve laughingly written many times about my husband’s attitude toward abstract art. He doesn’t like it. He doesn’t “get” it.…

Abstract Art, creativity, Weird art

Art Quiz: The Answer is Rajasthan

What little I’ve learned of art history has focused on European and American art, so I’ve been introduced to a…

Hindu gods and goddesses, Indian Art, Kishangarh, Krishna, Radha

Art Quiz: Question 53

Here’s today “Art Quiz” question, and I had no idea on this one. Do you know the answer? The Kishangarh…

Art History, Art Quiz, Kishangarh

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