9 Books to Improve Your Creative Mindset
For the Love of Reading While Sheltering-In, books are a perfect antidote to fretting. Reading a good book closes the door in the room of
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Painting Flowers in Watercolor – and a free download
Painting Flowers in Watercolor as a Meditation I’m painting flowers in watercolor as a meditation this week. With my cell phone, I snapped a photo
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Creative Collage Ideas – No Drawing Required
Ideas for Easy Creative Collage Art Let’s layer some creative collage ideas with no drawing skills required. Easy peasey, fun art, you can create alone
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Portrait Collage Ideas – Vintage Family Photos
Eldest Son was created from hand-printed, archival tissue papers, torn and assembled as a portrait collage of two figures. The faces of each figure were
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Can You Use Watercolor on Moleskine Notebooks? (And Tips to Help Calm Fretting)
Using Watercolor in a Sketchbook You can use watercolor with good results when your Moleskine notebook is made with watercolor paper. If your Moleskine notebook
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Watercolor and Colored Pencils – Mixing Your Media
Colored Pencil Curious Thanks for your emails on the last post (read that post about watercolor and colored pencils here). I’m glad the links to
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Watercolor and Colored Pencil Illustration – Twirling Sangria
Watercolor and Colored Pencil Illustration Art Supplies The paper used on this art is Borden & Riley #120P Bristol Plate held with Frog masking tape
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Monotype Transfer Drawing Painted with Watercolor – Pendulum Dream
Petite Monotype Transfer Drawings While making a video course, new artwork is created to demonstrate the process so you can see all the steps. This
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Watercolor Portrait with Colored Pencil – Paeonia
Small Watercolor Portrait Here’s a little watercolor portrait with colored pencil from a photo my cousin was kind enough to let me sketch from (Paeonia
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A Silk Aquatint Print Portrait – and a New Website
Everything in it’s Place! Artwork featured in this post: Reflecting 5.25 x 4.5 inch Silk Aquatint with Colored Pencil (available here) Hello there, my friend!
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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 painter.
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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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