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Sometimes a painting just needs a little something to make the difference between mediocre and magnificent. In my case, it is often a bird.

Shawn Dell Joyce paintings have risen in value by more than 50% in the past ten years! The ROI in the stock market, real estate and other...

I'm moving to a video format for my blogs and have TWO new blogposts for you. Both are on capturing weather effects like thunder clouds...

Folks, I know it's hard to read blogs and time is always a constraint. That's why I'm changing media...switching to weekly YouTube video...

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in...

Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the 20th century. The French artist used color as the foundation for his...

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and...

by Shawn Dell Joyce This week in my Classical Training class at Dunedin Fine Art Center, we are studying Vincent Willem van Gogh. He was...

We artists pride ourselves on being unique. Like each one of us is a perfect little snowflake in a blizzard. But actually, we are...

In my Classical Training class we study some of the work of artists who have changed history. The first class we learn about his most...

I feel very fortunate to be one of the folks who received a professional grant this cycle from Creative Pinellas. One of the requirements...

How it feels to paint with an audience and why you should! For the past month, I have been working in public on a large-scale painting in...

by Shawn Dell Joyce Recently, one of the artists in my painting studio asked me confidentially if it's possible to get worse instead of...

I’m a big proponent of the idea that there is a creative power in the universe that will move heaven and earth to help me on my artistic...

One of the ways plein air painters capture a scene so quickly is to reduce it to blocks of color and value. This is very challenging to...

When you become comfortable working with 5 values from dark to light, it's time to push that envelope to 10 values! Remember if you have...

Tricks to solve a problem with the same brain that created them! Self-evaluation is a skill that can be built right alongside your...

Its the holidays and there is consumerism everywhere-we are inundated with increasingly more targeted ads. It won't be long before...

Recently I had a solo show. One of the many ancillary benefits of it, was that it generated a large commission for me. A collector who...