beach painting | Shawn Dell Joyce

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...

Secrets to Painting Sunsets and Water Reflections

I teach classes in painting sunsets, both in the studio and en plein air. No surprise that I LOVE painting sunsets and the rich chroma...

Color Temperature and why it makes a difference

Most people have no idea what color temperature is. Only geeky artists ever use that term, and maybe a wayward interior decorator. But we...

The Ugly Stage

Every painting has an ugly stage. You know when you are about 30% into it and its not working out the way you want and your mind starts...

Abstracting the Landscape

When I'm plein air painting, I have a different process than when I'm painting in the studio. In plein air, you have a short period of...

The painting process

If I were to describe my painting process here, it would be back-to front, and dark-to-light. That means I started with the big shapes of ..