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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 4 - Become A Color Temperature Geek
What is Color Temperature? The most basic definition of color temperature is that it’s the perception of warmth and coolness of a color....
Why Drawing is Important in Painting
As painters, we’re fixated on a lot of things—the mixing, the colors, the details and many more. We’re drawn to the idea that our...
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...
Nancy Guzik
Another artist I admire and have had the pleasure of studying with is Nancy Guzik. She has the most sensitive approach to her subjects...
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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.