Today I received Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists by Ann Baldwin and I love it! First of all, I love her style. She combines collage with paint and ink in a beautiful way. The book starts out teaching about layout and composition and goes all the way through to teach the reader everything [...]
I am just obsessed with drawing these days. I’m still not good at it, but for the first time ever, I have a belief that if I keep doing it, I will get better. Today I found a great lesson on faces at Drawspace.com. They have dozens of free lessons on everything from cartoons to [...]
Lately I have been playing with watercolor pencils a lot. As I get more practice with them I’m realizing all the ways they can be used so they are quickly becoming one of my favorite supplies for journaling.
Watercolor pencils look like ordinary colored pencils, but what makes them magic is that you can apply water [...]
I have some of my art for sale. A couple of my favorite paintings, a necklace made from monopoly pieces and some really cool and funky crosses and frames made from beads and broken jewelry.
Check it out here.
Over at Fun Art in the Drawing and Sketching group, I posted this tutorial, and thought my readers might like it so I’m posting it here, too.
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Practice Shading
Materials needed:
Sturdy paper
Watercolor pencils
Gesso
Small or medium brush
A good way to learn about shading is to copy over something that already has the shading painted or drawn [...]
Am I the last person ever to hear of this concept? Just in case I’m not, let me explain. Apparently many creative types use a board to tack or glue words, images, etc of their creative ideas. From my research it seems to be a mainstay for fashion designers and interior designers. But lots of [...]
I’ve just discovered this site which is basically an art blog. But what I really like about it is their weekly videos. This feature is called, “Dialogue”. Each week they interview artists on a specific topic. The one below features a discussion on gender in art.
Watch this and then go check out their other episodes.
Design [...]
As you probably read, my brother-in-law passed away a couple of weeks ago. Then this past friday we found out that my sister (who just lost her husband) had to go to Dallas because her daughter-in-law has a brain tumor and is having surgery to remove it tomorrow. She and her husband have three young [...]
I have done so much art this past week. More than I’ve done in a very long time. I got this surge of wanting to do nothing but art. But I find myself at a stump. I feel something coming, like a shift in what I’m doing. Maybe pushing me to a new dimension. But [...]
