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5 Tips for Selling Art Online
1. Make better art descriptions Selling is all about letting people know what they’re in for. Think of your product description as a sort...
Lesson 1 - Value, Your Biggest Asset
What is value? Value is essentially how light or dark a color is. In other words, it is the brightness of a color. The lighter the color,...
Lesson 2.5 - The Fastest Way To Color Mixing Confidence
Your Palette Inside and Out There’s a common misconception that color mixing is random and simple. Painters, at some point of their...
Lesson 3 - Essential Darks, The Key To Brilliant Color
The Temperature of Darks Our eyes depend on light. It’s as simple as that. If we take a good look at everything around us, we notice how...
Lesson 5 - Painting Mindsets, Silencing The Inner Critic
Let’s silence your inner critic and invite it along for the ride of you becoming the best artist you can be! It's our self-critics that...
Creativity and Inspiration
Creativity is work, resourcefulness and the craft itself. Inspiration is the lightbulb, the mental stimulation that instigates a person...
Oil-based vs Acrylic Paint
As painters, we find ourselves looking up to the greats. We tend to imitate their idiosyncrasies and use what it is they use in the...
How to Transfer an Image to the Canvas
When we're just starting out painting, sometimes we neglect the impact drawing has with our work. We find ourselves rushing the drawing...
Nearly Extinct
One beautiful sunny morning, I was able to observe a pair of endangered Whooping Cranes grooming, feeding, and interaction with each...
The Piping Plover
“The Chicks are Hatching” Oil on linen 11 x 14 When I see a bird in the wild doing something deliberate—like protecting their young—I'm...
Endangered!
When you decide to help a cause, things will begin to line up one after the other. It’s as if a path gets cleared and creativity flows...
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I have always loved art and drawing. I studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and then began working for a publishing house as a typesetter and layout artist.