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9 Books to Improve Your Creative Mindset

For the Love of Reading While Sheltering-In, books are a perfect antidote to fretting. A good book closes the door in the room of fragmented

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a watercolor painting of tiny daisies in a brass vase in the sunshine

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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A woman wearing a fur coat and a pencil skirt walking her beagle dog in a green neighborhood

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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collage portrait made from torn paper and paint of a mother and child

Portrait Collage Ideas – Vintage Family Photos

Portrait Collage Ideas Eldest Son was created from hand-printed, archival tissue papers, torn and assembled as a portrait collage of two figures. The faces of

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portrait of a little kid, head down, staring out from under her eyebrows with determination, in watercolor in a Moleskine notebook

Can You Use Watercolors on Moleskine Notebooks?

Painting with Watercolors in a Sketchbook You can paint with watercolor and get good results when your Moleskine notebook is made with watercolor paper. If

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Receiving Line 6.25 x 10.75 Watercolor and Colored Pencil Illustration

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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silk-aquatint of a young woman contemplating

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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a dark field monotype ghost print with watercolor added, featuring two roses in a bud vase

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 print monotype with a girl holding a fox on her lap

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 engraving etched from plexiglass

Drypoint Print on Plexiglass – Using Inexpensive Plastic for Intaglio Printmaking

Drypoint Print on Plexiglass Want to know how to make a drypoint on plexiglass? This little drypoint print (above) was an experiment with inexpensive plastic

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Watercolor of a young woman sleeping in a black camisole on yellow sheets

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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a collagraph portrait print of a man in a bed sleeping with a cat hovering over him

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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a greyhound lounging asleep on a big arm chair

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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a view from up above, looking down on a white bowl with two clementines with their stems and leaves intertwined

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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a painter displaying his oil painting in an arcade at the San Juan Capistrano Mission

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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A watercolor of a man napping under palms and trees with their trunks painted white

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 Quit 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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a watercolor painting by Belinda del pesco of a woman sitting on a couch with bare feet on a coffee table and a cat perched on the back of the couch behind her.

How to Use Sight Size Drawing for Accuracy

The Trifecta: Grid Method, Sight Size Drawing and Watercolor Glazing Artists have developed many tips and tricks to improve accuracy in drawing. When drawing a

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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 in

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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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