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Matisse and Wild Color or Fauvism
Henri Matisse is widely regarded as the greatest colorist of the 20th century. The French artist used color as the foundation for his...

Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Jul 5, 20233 min read
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Color As Value
One of my favorite challenges in my Advanced Pastel Techniques class (next session is at Dunedin Fine Art Center Winter 1, Thursday...

Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Sep 24, 20222 min read
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Color Temperature and Henry Hensche
In my class; "Classical Training for Artists" we are studying color theory and the work of "Every form change is a color change..."...

Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Jul 10, 20213 min read
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How I teach Still Life Classes...
If you ask 100 different artists how to approach a still life, you may get 100 different answers. In art, there are many paths to the...

Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Dec 6, 20202 min read
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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...

Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Nov 16, 20203 min read
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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 ..

Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 31, 20203 min read
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Abstracting the Landscape Part 2
What we have done so far is break it down into values and shapes. At this point, we can start assigning color to those shapes.

Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 10, 20202 min read
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