A Silk Aquatint Print Portrait – and a New Website
Everything in it’s Place! Hello there, my friend! Long time, eh? It’s good to be in touch again, and I’m so glad you’ve stopped in
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Adding Watercolor to Monotype Ghost Prints
Adding Watercolor to Monotype Ghost Prints In this monotype group on facebook, there was discussion about what to do with very faint monotype ghost prints.
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3 Group Art Activities for a Gathering of Friends and Family
Group Art Activities for Your Next Gathering When you host a gathering of friends and family, group art activities create fine memories and a lot
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Gelli Plate Print Backgrounds for Trace Monotypes
Gelli Plate Print Abstracts Gelli Plate Prints and Monotype prints are some of the most accessible types of printmaking to try if you’re curious about
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Drypoint Print on Plexiglass – Using Inexpensive Plastic for Intaglio Printmaking
Drypoint on Plexiglass Want to know how to make a drypoint on plexiglass? This little drypoint print (above) was an experiment with inexpensive plastic plate
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5 Watercolor Techniques to Try as a Beginner
Watercolor Techniques for Beginners, or Returning Artists After a Long Hiatus (Welcome Back) ? Here are 5 watercolor techniques to try if you’re a beginner
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Collagraph Print Portraits of People and Pets
How to Make a Collagraph Portrait Want a creative project to try at your kitchen table? Here’s how to make a collagraph print portrait, step
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Gift Ideas for Watercolor Artists
What Gifts do Watercolor Artists Wish For? How do you know what to gift to a watercolor artist? Do beginner painters prefer different art supplies
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Watercolor Portraits of Pets
First, an Introduction to Jack Before we dive into painting watercolor portraits of pets, let me introduce you to our model, Jack. He chews flowers.
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7 Questions to Help You Roll Past Creative Block
7 Question to Help You Roll Past Creative Block How do you break through creative block? At different times in my life, I’ve felt so
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How to Add Two Hours of Art to Every Week
How to Make More Art This (above) is my friend Ron, seated, exhibiting and selling his paintings at a California Art Club exhibit held at
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How to Title Landscape Art for Sale
How to Title Landscape Art for Sale I attended an opening for an exhibit I was in at the Santa Paula Art Museum. A pair
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Dark Field Monotype Pet Portraits – and a video tutorial
Making Pet Portraits with Monotype Prints Dark Field Monotypes (and monoprints) work very well as a media for pet portraits. These painterly prints in their
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5 Great Tools for Beginner Watercolor Artists, and Some Tips
Tools for Beginner Watercolor Artists Beginner watercolor artists need encouragement, tips and effective tools to stay with this lovely medium. Have you ever heard someone
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9 Things to Give up for Your Art – and a Light Field Monotype with Watercolor
Procrastination Steals Art-Time Here is a list of share worthy articles to help set your upcoming art plans into action, written boldly, and then pinned
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Resources for Printing a Reduction Woodcut
Two Color Reduction Printmaking Here is a small, relief printmaking woodcut portrait of a girl with red hair, looking down as she gets ready for
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How to Use Sight Size Drawing for Accuracy – and a Watercolor Portrait
The Trifecta: Grid Method, Sight Size Drawing and Watercolor Glazing Artists have developed many tips and tricks to improve accuracy and results in art-making. For
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Resources for Making a Monotype from Plexiglass – with Watercolors and Water Soluble Crayons
Monotype Video Course I’ve been listening to podcast interviews with other artists while filming a dark field monotype course. Hearing other artists discuss their journey
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Monotype Ghost Print of a Cat – and links to Monotype Artists
Inspiration from Other Artists Thank goodness monotype artists share their work online, or we wouldn’t have any painterly printmaking to look at from the comfort
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5 Tips to Get Past the Ugly Stage in Watercolor Painting
Getting Past Ugly in Your Art Making art often stalls in the Ugly Tunnel. ? On your pilgrimage to a finished watercolor, there’s a crossing
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What’s the Difference Between Dark and Light Field Monotype Prints?
What is a Light Field Monotype? Monotypes are a hybrid between painting and printmaking. The name monotype has the root “mono” meaning one. Monotype printmaking
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Tips for Drawing and Painting the Figure in Watercolor
Painting the Figure I’ll just come right out and say it: People are discouragingly hard to draw and paint. You can sketch a landscape or
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How to Save a Failed Watercolor with Pastel – Ferris Wheel Spin
Pastel Over Watercolor The painting above started as a watercolor. I knew it was overcooked at the three-quarters finished point – so I tossed it
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How to Find Your Collectors – Selling Your Art
Artistic Affinities – and How to Sell Your Art I need to tell you a story to explain the importance of finding *your* art collectors….
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Traveling with Watercolors, and a list of inspiring Art Links for you
Summertime Pace of Art-Making I traveled to France to work as crew twice with a wonderful company called WorkshopsinFrance.com. The bank of travel photos and
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5 Printmakers to follow on Instagram, Vol. 2 and a Monotype
Using Other Media on Your Monotypes This monotype ghost print looked a little dubious all by itself (see below), but it had potential. The mark-making
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11 Reasons Beginners should Make Small Art
Painting Small Studies In the chain of Islands off the coast of the town I live in, the coves and anchorages all have names. Some
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Painting Urban Scenes in Watercolor – Queensboro
Upcoming Video Courses My studio is a tangle of audio cables, lights, tripods and video equipment. I’m filming new courses for my online school Belinda
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Watercolor Painting Resources – Links for you
Shades of Gray for your Watercolor Palette Here are some watercolor painting resources to help with color choices, organization and inspiration. Check out this Winsor
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Painting Exercise – Paint a Monochromatic Watercolor with Daniel Smith Lunar Black
Watercolor Painting Exercise I’ve been following Marc Taro Holmes‘ 30×30 project (read his first post about it here). Have you? His close up shots of
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