Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Finding Your Tribe
"Success happens in clusters." -Julia Cameron; The Artist's Way We artists need each other. It's a simple fact. While many artists may...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Nov 13, 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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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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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 9, 2021
- 4 min
Kindred Spirits
Lessons from Olana and painting on hallowed ground... For the past month I've been teaching a plein air pastel class at Olana, this...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Making 100 Shades of Green
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Sep 26, 2021
- 5 min
Working up a painting from sketch to completion ALLA PRIMA!
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Sep 16, 2021
- 3 min
Complementary Palette for Pastel
I first learned about using a complementary palette from reading The Yin and Yang of Painting by Hongnian Zhang, from the Woodstock...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Aug 14, 2021
- 5 min
Believing Mirror-why we artists need each other
"Success happens in clusters..." Julia Cameron The Artist's Way I asked my friend A. (for anonymous) how her painting was going in a...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jul 31, 2021
- 3 min
When Success Knocks-Creating Opportunities Through Marketing
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jul 17, 2021
- 3 min
Sorolla and the Color of Light (paying homage)
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,...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- May 1, 2021
- 8 min
What I want you to know...
Recently, I was asked by Ampersand Art Supply to be featured in their upcoming blog. As part of this process, they asked me to answer...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Apr 24, 2021
- 6 min
Honest Self Appraisal vs Critique
Anyone who has had a class with me has experienced an honest self appraisal at the end of class. This is different from a group critique...
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