Pen and Ink Drawing for Inktober – Secret Sanctuary (Flowing)
Finding Time for Inktober The challenge of sketching an ink drawing in a sketchbook every day for 30 days can be overwhelming when you already
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What is a Silk Aquatint? A Printmaking Method Introduction
What is a Silk Aquatint? Silk aquatint is a variation of a printmaking method – Aquatint. The traditional version uses an acid bath, a metal
Study for Queensboro – and Collecting Photo References for your Paintings
Watercolors of Places I’m fortunate to have a gaggle of friends and family with abundant creative mojo for lassoing photos as potential painting fodder. Padded
5 Tips For Showing and Talking About Your Art
5 Tips for Showing your Art to the Public I’ll be driving south for the San Diego Artwalk in a week. Standing in my art
Watercolor: Vanilla Sun – and a month after the Thomas Fire
Flexing Our Composition Muscles While experimenting with the camera on my phone, I snapped a flurry of photos around the house to exercise my composition
Island Fox Collagraph Print and the Thomas Fire
Checking In How are you doing this week? We’re all hiking through the woods together towards the end of the year. This last stretch is
Collagraph – Three Amigos – and a list of online video art and craft classes
Online Art Classes You’ve probably heard that everything online is moving towards video. You can read articles with statistics on trends, and look at popular
Watercolor: Adventurous Heart (& inspiration from George Clausen)
I had a conversation with a friend about looking at other artists’ work – especially artists who are farther along on the path, and much
Tips to Start Showing Your Art
If you Make Art, Share It One of the topics I hear from artists over and over again is related to the fear of showing their
Watercolor: Drinks at the Reception (& Artists on Facebook)
There are so many artists sharing art on Facebook, the affirmation that beauty is a necessity scrolls down my feed in an avalanche of encouraged inspiration.