Words as Art Supplies
Wrestling Your Naysayers When an artist’s practical ingredients are missing (supplies, space), that’s a legitimate road block to creativity. But the most important foundation to
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Consuming Social Media, or Creating Art
Consuming Social Media, or Creating Art I’ve been thinking about the tug-of-war between consuming social media and creating art. The come-hither glow of visual stimulation
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My Favorite Pencil and Graphite Drawing Supplies
My Favorite Pencil and Graphite Drawing Supplies After two decades of drawing, and lots of emails with the same questions, this post is focused on
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Tearing Full Sheets of Fine Art Paper to Smaller Sizes
Tearing Full Sheets of Fine Art Paper to Smaller Sizes When I started my creative adventures, I was baffled by the assortment of papers available
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Practicing Watercolor Painting in the Evening
Practicing Watercolor Painting in the Evening on the Couch I dearly love painting watercolors in the evening on the couch. It’s the best way I
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Sketching People in Watercolors
Sketching People in Watercolors Figurative watercolors are – to me – one of the most challenging subjects to sketch and paint. Watercolor is already an
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Colored Pencil Portrait on Black Paper
Colored Pencil Portrait on Black Paper I’ve been experimenting with black paper – using colored pencils, pastels (here is a landscape in pastel), and gouache.
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Small Landscape Study in Watercolor with Colored Pencil
Small Landscape Study in Watercolor with Colored Pencil Something about cypress trees makes me want to draw and paint them as small landscape studies. They
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Watercolors, Sketching, Printmaking and Stitching – an Art Studio Update
Watercolors, Sketching, Printmaking, and Stitching – an Art Studio Update As I mentioned in the last post, I have mountains of unfinished art in my
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Small Figurative Watercolor Studies
Small Figurative Watercolor Studies I promised a segue from the gel plate monoprint marathon, so here we are, painting small (quick) figurative watercolor studies at
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Gel Plate Drawing Transfer Monoprint with Acrylic Paint and Colored Pencils
Gel Plate Drawing Transfer Monoprint with Acrylic Paint and Colored Pencils I’m almost finished making these Gel Plate Drawing Transfer Monoprints, I promise… I can’t
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Colored Pencil over Ballpoint Gel Plate Monoprint
Colored Pencil over Ballpoint Gel Plate Monoprint Colored Pencil over Acrylic Gel Monprint Using Colored Pencil on top of a monoprint from a gel plate
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Monoprint with Gel Plate and Ballpoint Drawing Transfer
Monoprint with Gel Plate and Ballpoint Drawing Transfer My ballpoint gel plate monoprint drawing transfer experimentation continues. (That’s a mouthful of words, eh?) For inspiration,
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Gelli Plate Monoprint Drawing Transfer
Gelli Plate Monoprint Drawing Transfer Gelli plate monoprint drawing transfer with ballpoint experiments continue in my studio. I’m finding a very satisfying rhythm in the
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Gelli Plate and Ball Point Monoprints
Gelli Plate and Ball Point Monoprints After the excitement I had in the last post while making my first Gelli Plate and Ball Point Monoprints,
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Gelli Plate Monoprint with Ballpoint Emboss Drawing Transfer
Gelli Plate Monoprint with Ballpoint Emboss Drawing Transfer Gelli plate monoprints offer a festive and varied approach to printmaking without the need for a press.
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Collagraph Print from Mat Board with Akua Inks
Collagraph Print from Mat Board with Akua Inks Here is a small Collagraph Print from Mat Board with Akua Inks. I printed this last Sunday
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Color Monotype Printmaking Portrait without a Press
Color Monotype Printmaking Portrait without a Press Making a color monotype print portrait (without a press) of my lovely cousin emerging from a swimming pool.
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Color Monotype Print without a Press
Color Monotype Print without a Press Making a color monotype print without a press is officially addictive. (You can see in the two previous posts
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Monotype Print in Layered Colors without a Press
Monotype Print in Layered Colors without a Press Creating monotype prints in layered colors without a press began as a demo for my group on
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Color Monotype Portrait Printed without a Press
Color Monotype Portrait Printed without a Press This week in my Mastrius group, I demo’d an approach to making color monotype portrait prints without the
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Collagraph using Recycled Cardboard Printed Intaglio Style without a Press
Collagraph using Recycled Cardboard Printed Intaglio Style without a Press While we were all staying in, I posted a series of printmaking experiments using common
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Color Landscape Light Field Monotype Print
Color Landscape Light Field Monotype Print Here is a quick video demo (below) to show you the steps to make a full color landscape light
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A New Adventure: Artist Mentorship
A New Adventure: Artist Mentorship I’m pleased to share that I’m offering artist mentorships through Mastrius.com. Mastrius helps motivated artists accelerate their creative journey by
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Adjusting Watercolor Paintings with Colored Pencils
Adjusting Watercolor Paintings with Colored Pencils Colored pencils can transform a watercolor that missed the mark, got a little muddy, or craves a bit of
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Pencil Sketching Practice
Pencil Sketching Practice Pencil Sketching Practice has been rhapsodized for eons. But that doesn’t mean we all commit to a regular habit of sketching (right?)
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Gelli Plate Monotype Portrait Print
Gelli Plate Monotype Portrait Print Experiments with gelli plate monotype portrait prints have been underway in my studio, and they are FUN! The first test
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Figurative Watercolors – Sand Castle Princess
Figurative Watercolors – Sand Castle Princess I took a pause from my fun Mokulito printmaking experiments to work on this small watercolor of a sand
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Wood Lithography (Mokulito) Prints with Watercolor
Wood Lithography (Mokulito) Prints with Watercolor I’ve been experimenting with the use of watercolor to print full-color backgrounds on mokulito (wood lithography) prints. Applying tube
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Color Tetrapak Collagraph Print
Color Tetra Pak Collagraph Print I veered off the Mokulito (Wood Litho) printmaking trail to take a little hike with Tetra Pak prints this week.
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