Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Building Community with Art
When you paint, it often feels like a solitary practice. But it isn't, and it doesn't have to be. We artists need a sense of community to...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Aug 28
- 4 min
Repeating Kindred Spirits
This blog from last year rings so true to me today that I'm giving it another play. Many iof you are new subscribers so this may be the...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Aug 21
- 10 min
Painting with the Hudson River School Part 3 (ending)
This is the final installment (part 3 of 3) of a short piece of historical fiction from my upcoming trilogy of stories based on the...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Aug 14
- 9 min
Painting with the Hudson River School part 2
Folks, I am just arriving in NY and getting ready for a couple weeks of painting in places the Hudson River School painted 250 years ago....
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Aug 7
- 6 min
What its like to paint with the Hudson River School...
As I pack to head up to the Hudson Valley to teach a workshop at Olana, I'm going to give you a sneak peek at my latest work of fiction....
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jul 22
- 4 min
Mentors (the importance of)
Many artists I've met proudly proclaim that they are "self-taught" and for many years, I often said that myself because I didn't learn...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jul 16
- 6 min
What does your art mean?
Transcendentalism, symbols and meanings in my paintings by Shawn Dell Joyce Ever see the light filtering through the trees and it leaves...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jun 29
- 6 min
What it's like to go to IAPS (one person's opinion and experience) by Shawn Dell Joyce
The International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) convenes every other year in Albuquerque, NM. I've been wanting to go for years,...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- May 22
- 3 min
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 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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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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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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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Mar 7
- 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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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 24, 2021
- 5 min
Great Pause and the New Normal
(I've been traveling for workshops and will be back to my regularly scheduled art blog next week, bear with me!) Ok, so I have an older...
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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
- Aug 29, 2021
- 5 min
Shortcuts to Success
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Aug 22, 2021
- 5 min
Embracing Frustration
What I learned from attending Pastel Live! and how to use your artistic frustration as Miracle Grow for your artistic abilities... As a...
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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
- Aug 7, 2021
- 5 min
Your Art Discipline
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...
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