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
- Jan 15
- 3 min
How to Fudge a Light Source
Landscapes are beautiful all on their own, but adding a focal point like a figure or a creature can improve a painting. But how do you...
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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
- Oct 30, 2021
- 4 min
Portraits and getting a likeness...
Portraits are the Holy Grail in art. Artists aspire to do realistic portraits because nothing screams success like a well drawn likeness....
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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
- May 9, 2021
- 3 min
Why I fell in love with Mount Vision Pastels
I have always loved small businesses, especially family-owned. These businesses are the backbone of the US economy because they create a...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Mar 27, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Feb 21, 2021
- 2 min
To Blend or Not To Blend!
Every pastelist (and many others) face this dilemma on a regular basis. There are two trains of thought when it comes to blending in...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Feb 6, 2021
- 2 min
Starting with Watercolor...
Each medium has it's strength, and weakness. Pastel is magic because you can layer color, and even light over dark and dark over light...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jan 23, 2021
- 4 min
Switching it up-playing with other mediums to strengthen your painting skills
I cannot overstate the importance of play. As a professional art teacher, I see many novice artists that take themselves so seriously and...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jan 10, 2021
- 3 min
Artistic Discipline
We often don't think of art in terms of a discipline. Usually we think art is "outside the box" and creativity "happens," it isn't...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Dec 6, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Nov 16, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 31, 2020
- 3 min
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 ..
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Sep 27, 2020
- 4 min
The Lure of the Nocturne
There's a whole new world that opens up when the sun sets. Night changes the values and colors of the landscape; everything becomes low-key,
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Aug 30, 2020
- 2 min
Why Pastel is the Best Medium for Capturing Light Effects
Every medium has its strength and weaknesses. If you have experimented with different mediums (most of us do and accumulate closets full of
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