11 Reasons Beginners should Make Small Art
Beginning Your Art Adventures I’ve mentioned in previous posts that much of my early watercolors were small paintings – no bigger than 4×6 or 5×7.
Beginning Your Art Adventures I’ve mentioned in previous posts that much of my early watercolors were small paintings – no bigger than 4×6 or 5×7.
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
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
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
Jewel Watercolors from Winsor & Newton With summertime approaching in the US and Europe, painting with watercolors in the garden could be in your future.
Charles Clark Reid (1937-2019) I was adding a recently completed watercolor to my Facebook page, when I caught this announcement on the Charles Reid Page
How to Make a Collagraph using Carborundum This collagraph was build on the back of a piece of mat board. Wanna build one too? (If
Color Landscape Monotype Printmaking Tips Here is a printmaking exercise for you. Make quick, small landscape color monotype prints from a page of Thumbnail Photos
Inspiring Art Links for You Marc Taro Holmes is embarking on a 30×30 challenge that’s a variation on the usual month-long painting commitment. He’s made
Impressionable Beginner Artists Some of us like Rules. I’ve mentioned in previous posts (read this one), I suspect my love for printmaking and clanking metal
Over the years of posting photos here of work in process at Art Festivals, you’ve asked about the set up I use to paint watercolors
Getting Ready to Make a Monotype This (below) is a 4 x 6 zinc plate, with beveled edges – since I’ll be printing this on
Monotype Ghost Prints If you’re new here, and unfamiliar with monotypes as a printmaking method, take a look at this post to see process shots.
Artists’ Still Life Objects The cast iron birdbath curio in this petite watercolor has been rendered in enough still life paintings and printmaking projects that
Graphite Portrait Drawing – Little Girl I’m back from Sierra Madre Artwalk, where crowds were friendly, art was collected, and it was mostly lovely weather
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
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
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
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
Charting the Map for your Beginner Artist’s Journey If you think about the basic requirements on the path leading toward how to be an artist,
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
Artists Transform Things Pierre Bonnard painted walls, windows and surfaces that were festive with light and color, but those objects – by themselves – were
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
Practicing Art – Combating Discouragement After a Failed Painting Feelings of Discouragement I start every piece of art with sparkly goals and bubbly excitement for