Working in the Public Eye
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Apr 15, 20234 min read
When Your Skills Go Backward!
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Apr 8, 20233 min read
How Synchronicity Got Me On TV
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Dec 12, 20224 min read
Spirit of the Season
Its the holidays and there is consumerism everywhere-we are inundated with increasingly more targeted ads. It won't be long before...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Sep 4, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 202210 min read
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, 20229 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 202211 min read
"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, 20223 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20215 min read
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, 20214 min read
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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