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    Why Under Paint?
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • May 7
    • 2 min

    Why Under Paint?

    An underpainting wash is a way to dissolve layers of color into the tooth of a paper to lay down a base coating and free up the paper...
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    Making an Underpainting Work For You!
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Apr 25
    • 3 min

    Making an Underpainting Work For You!

    I don't often use under paintings as I am an alla prima painter (all at once) and tend to move quickly through the composition. This is...
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    Doing anything else but painting!
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Apr 16
    • 3 min

    Doing anything else but painting!

    I'm my last session of my advanced pastel class at Dunedin Fine Art Center, I had a conversation with my people about what keeps them...
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    Simplifying a Figure into Value Blocks and Shapes
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Apr 10
    • 2 min

    Simplifying a Figure into Value Blocks and Shapes

    Figures bring a human element to any landscape, especially beach scenes. But many artists are intimidated by the figure, and feel they...
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    Baby in a Tree Part 2
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Mar 27
    • 7 min

    Baby in a Tree Part 2

    Continued from last week... Then I blamed myself for being too old, or maybe our genes were stale, or I gained weight at the wrong pace...
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    "The Baby in the Tree" by Shawn Dell Joyce
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Mar 20
    • 11 min

    "The Baby in the Tree" by Shawn Dell Joyce

    A short story based on the Hudson River School and the philosophy of Transcendentalism. The storm howled outside the tiny RV rocking and...
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    Inspiration by Shawn Dell Joyce
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Mar 8
    • 3 min

    Inspiration by Shawn Dell Joyce

    Many realist painters do not have to look far for inspiration, others work from inspired series (figures in the landscape, sunsets,...
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    Changing the direction of the light in plein air (Planar Values)
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Feb 28
    • 2 min

    Changing the direction of the light in plein air (Planar Values)

    Nature almost never gives you perfect light, and the time to paint it! Very often you must make up the light, or intensify it when it...
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    Adding a Figure to a Plein Air Painting
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Feb 5
    • 2 min

    Adding a Figure to a Plein Air Painting

    Adding a figure into a composition-while you are painting it en plein air-is always a challenge. I prefer to work from live models on the...
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    What Makes You Tick?
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Jan 29
    • 4 min

    What Makes You Tick?

    A friend recently asked me “if you didn’t have to sell your art, or teach art, would you still do it?” My answer is “Hail yeah! I’d still...
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    Rembrandt and Lost and Found Edges
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Jan 22
    • 3 min

    Rembrandt and Lost and Found Edges

    How using fewer brushstrokes and edges can make a stronger painting. In my class; "Classical Training for Artists" which is a beginning...
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    How to Fudge a Light Source
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Jan 15
    • 3 min

    How to Fudge a Light Source

    Landscapes are beautiful all on their own, but adding a focal point like a figure or a creature can improve a painting. But how do you...
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    Color Studies May Just Save Your Life!
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Jan 7
    • 3 min

    Color Studies May Just Save Your Life!

    Color studies may save your life! How to plan a painting. Preparatory sketches.
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    Painting Waves and Water in Motion
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Painting Waves and Water in Motion

    Plein air painting in Florida means that at some point you will be painting water in motion, and probably at the beach. Painting anything...
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    Painting Water Reflections
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Dec 4, 2021
    • 4 min

    Painting Water Reflections

    This blog along with the previous 4, and the next 22 are designed specifically for the Plein Air Adventure class to go along with the...
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    Painting Trees
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Nov 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Painting Trees

    Painting Palms and trees with Shawn Dell Joyce Treat trees as value masses and start with your darkest darks and get them down first:...
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    Simplifying Your Subject Into Blocks of Value and Color
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Nov 20, 2021
    • 2 min

    Simplifying Your Subject Into Blocks of Value and Color

    One of the hardest things for me to do is to keep it simple. I'm a complicated person. I can complicated my way out of a paper bag! I...
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    Sighting and Sight-Sizing in the landscape
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Nov 14, 2021
    • 4 min

    Sighting and Sight-Sizing in the landscape

    This week's demo and topic in Plein Air Adventure was on using the tool of sighting to gauge a measurement, and basing every measurement...
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    Doing things that scare the hell out of you artistically!
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Nov 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Doing things that scare the hell out of you artistically!

    (Like starting a new class where you feel over your head, and out of your league) We all feel scared and overwhelmed at some point-if you...
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    Portraits and getting a likeness...
    Shawn Dell Joyce artist
    • Oct 31, 2021
    • 4 min

    Portraits and getting a likeness...

    Portraits are the Holy Grail in art. Artists aspire to do realistic portraits because nothing screams success like a well drawn likeness....
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