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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Mar 21
- 3 min
Using color wisely
We humans love color, specifically complementary colors. Our eyes are naturally attracted to the contrast of the complements. Think about...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Mar 7
- 2 min
The Ugly Stage
Every painting has an ugly stage. You know when you are about 30% into it and its not working out the way you want and your mind starts...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Feb 21
- 2 min
To Blend or Not To Blend!
Every pastelist (and many others) face this dilemma on a regular basis. There are two trains of thought when it comes to blending in...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jan 10
- 3 min
Artistic Discipline
We often don't think of art in terms of a discipline. Usually we think art is "outside the box" and creativity "happens," it isn't...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Dec 6, 2020
- 2 min
How I teach Still Life Classes...
If you ask 100 different artists how to approach a still life, you may get 100 different answers. In art, there are many paths to the...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Nov 22, 2020
- 2 min
Color Temperature Creates a Mood!
Right after value, color temperature is a very important element of painting. Being able to discern color temperature in your subject...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
Abstracting the Landscape
When I'm plein air painting, I have a different process than when I'm painting in the studio. In plein air, you have a short period of...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
The painting process
If I were to describe my painting process here, it would be back-to front, and dark-to-light. That means I started with the big shapes of ..
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 25, 2020
- 3 min
That defining moment when I became an artist...
Recently, I was asked to write about a painting that influenced me artistically...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 10, 2020
- 2 min
Abstracting the Landscape Part 2
What we have done so far is break it down into values and shapes. At this point, we can start assigning color to those shapes.
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 4, 2020
- 2 min
Abstracting the Landscape
Starting off with a good Gestalt is key to making a good painting.
To determine the Gestalt, you may need to abstract the design down to the
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