Watercolor – and Artist Marketing
The Mystery of Art Marketing I read your email questions asking about my enthusiasm for the upcoming course launch of Marketing Impact Academy, and why
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Pastel Drawing – Meandering to the Sea
Experimenting with Pastels In previous posts, I’ve used stick pastels on top of monotypes – inspired by Edgar Degas’ beautiful treatments of dry media over
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Online Marketing and Artists Learning Business Skills
Art Festival Observations I got back late lastnight from the San Diego Artwalk. The California sunshine and festival atmosphere in Little Italy brought all the
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Watercolor – Secret Island Anchorage
Painting Your Neighborhood There is a chain of small islands off the coast of southern California protected as a National Park. Several of the islands
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Watercolor: Rooster Comb, and Plotting the Map for your Creative Journey
Is there a Beginner Artist Map? If you think about basic requirements on the path leading towards how to be an artist, the list is
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Watercolor – Lucy Signals Catwoman, and Trying Harder with your Art
Trying in Art I’ve been thinking about the act of trying. The word means simply: to attempt something for the first time, or to put
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Drypoint from Drafting Film – Kinship
Drypoint from Mylar Several years ago, I read about an unnamed artist making drypoint engravings (sometimes referred to as drypoint etchings) from sheets of drafting
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Art Links for You, and a Watercolor – Firenze Cucina
Art Links for You Here are some art links for you this week, with hopes that you’ll latch onto something that fires your urge to
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Monotype Ghost Prints: Adding Watercolor to Your Monotypes
The Beauty of Monotype Ghost Prints Monotypes are painterly, singular prints made with a smooth plate and pigment. There is no carving, no incised lines,
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Five Printmakers to Follow on Instagram
Give Printmaking a Go Printmaking methods, and the approaches within each method are a perpetual ocean for exploration and experimentation. Add to that artists’ layering
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How to Find Your Art Style as a Beginner Artist
Finding Your Art Style – We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know One of the most conflicted facets of my adventure to become a full
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Bonnard Inspired Portraits: Painting the People You Love
Prolific Pierre Bonnard In addition to Bonnard’s bathing nude portraits, and window/still life interiors, he painted lovely genre scenes of his people. If you’ve visited
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Still Life inspired by Pierre Bonnard
Artists Transform Things Pierre Bonnard painted walls, windows and surfaces that were festive with light and color, but those objects – by themselves – were
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Painting Interior Scenes in Watercolor – Inspiration from Bonnard
In the Car with Bonnard I’m still thinking about, and staring at Pierre Bonnard. (If you missed the previous posts on my current muse, you
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Watercolor Portrait – and Combating Discouragement After a Failed Painting
Flipping Feelings of Discouragement I start every piece of art with sparkly goals and bubbly excitement for What-it-Could-Be. My favorite part of every painting is
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Learning Color and Composition from Bonnard
Look Around You Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was a french painter inspired by the rooms in his home, his yard and the people in his life.
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Graphite, Watercolor and Colored Pencil Portrait: Once Upon a Time
For the Love of Words Have you ever staged a painting based on a series of images? I have a collection of inspiring art saved
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Watercolor & Pastel – Gold Line in Little Tokyo
Using Photos from Friends in Art I’m fortunate to have very generous family and friends when it comes to artists’ visuals. My tribe sends me
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Finding More Time to Paint
Incremental Art-Making Painting in short increments can solve your Not Enough Time to Make Art quandary. I talk about this in my free course Six
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Fighting Art Perfectionism
Productive over Perfect Fact: Perfectionism crushes creativity. An effective way to recover from perfectionism is to start creating. That might seem counter-intuitive, but it follows
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Painting Small Portraits and Figure Studies in Watercolor
Painting Faces and Portraits in Watercolor Do you enjoy sketching and doodling faces in watercolor? I know some of you do, since I follow your
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Making a Silk Aquatint: The Captain’s Cabin
Silk Aquatint ExperimentsWhat’s a Silk Aquatint? This previous post covers the mechanics of how silk aquatints work, and some of the materials used. Let me show you
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Be Inspired to make Small Drawing and Painting Studies
Small Drawing and Painting Studies After last week’s post, you sent some lively emails questioning the definition of a small drawing or painting study, and
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Using a Grid to Sketch Small Watercolor Studies and Improve Drawing Skills
It’s a New Month Happy January! Hopefully, in between holiday clean up, and taking stock of the year from the rear view mirror, you’re also
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Light Field Monotype: Monterey Retreat
What’s a Monotype? A few posts back – the one about printmaking ink I accidentally left on a monotype plate for several weeks – I
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Dealing with Artist Jealousy
When Artists are Jealous I overheard two artists making sharp, envy-driven comments about another artist’s beautiful work at an exhibit. Jealousy is an ugly cloak.
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What Happens When You Leave Printmaking Inks on the Plate for too long?
What Happens When You Leave Printmaking Inks on the Plate for too long? Have you ever rolled Akua printmaking ink out on a plate and
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Drypoint and Collagraph Printmaking – Whale and Mermaid
Experiments in the Art Studio Experiments in the studio are important, because that’s what we should be doing with art supplies, right? Keeping things fresh
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Watercolor Sketch: Study for Cypress Viewfinder
Cleaning Up for Winter Art Projects The obstacle course that is my studio has to be dealt with. I’ve been cleaning in here for a
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Figurative Monotype – Jantzen Topper and Being a Gifted Natural vs a Determined Student
A Gifted Natural – or a Determined Student I attended a piano recital my grandkids played in last night. The performers ranged in age from
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