Lessons from Olana and painting on hallowed ground... For the past month I've been teaching a plein air pastel class at Olana, this...

How to mix greens and avoid the "salad bowl effect" by Shawn Dell Joyce When you paint landscapes, especially plein air, you use a lot of...

When you are just starting out, it can be daunting to paint a larger or more complicated painting. I've heart novice artists say that...

I first learned about using a complementary palette from reading The Yin and Yang of Painting by Hongnian Zhang, from the Woodstock...

Many artists and teachers will claim that their way is the right way, or the only way to approach painting. While painting does have some...

It seems the more successful I become, the more often I hear the same question; "are there secret shortcuts to success? tell me how you...

What I learned from attending Pastel Live! and how to use your artistic frustration as Miracle Grow for your artistic abilities... As a...

"Success happens in clusters..." Julia Cameron The Artist's Way I asked my friend A. (for anonymous) how her painting was going in a...

I teach a lot of workshops where people are taking a class for the first time, or just setting up an art practice. Yesterday, I taught a...

I really appreciate when press comes my way. It's rare (although it may seem to happen a lot to me) and it's usually because of my...

Do you have it? How do you get it? Where does it come from? This week, I spent a great deal of time on this painting. I struggled with it...

As a painter, I am easily amused. I can watch light wrap around figures and forms, captivated, for hours. Often when I am at the beach,...

In my class; "Classical Training for Artists" we are studying color theory and the work of "Every form change is a color change..."...

Cézanne mastered the simplification of his subjects to their basic shapes: he wanted to "treat nature in terms of the cylinder, the...

and how it can help your compositions affect viewers on a primal level... I'm a geek. If you are an artist, you probably are too. One of...

"Value does all the work, color gets all the credit!" In my Classical Training for Artists class at Dunedin Fine Art Center we are...

Many artists who take classes with me ask me about pricing their work. It's the number one most confusing thing for artists just starting...

My painting in a Florida collector's home This week, I got a phone call from a gallery requesting that I pick up some small framed pieces...

Many of you are new friends, and we've only known each other for a few years. You may be noticing that my career has taken an upward...

Many people look to art as a hobby-they may have taken a class or two, or even a Sip and Paint and decided art was calming and centering....