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    Finding Your Tribe
    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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    How to Fudge a Light Source
    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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    Painting Water Reflections
    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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    Portraits and getting a likeness...
    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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    Complementary Palette for Pastel
    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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    Why I fell in love with Mount Vision Pastels
    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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    Color Temperature and why it makes a difference
    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...
    114 views1 comment
    To Blend or Not To Blend!
    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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    Starting with Watercolor...
    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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    Switching it up-playing with other mediums to strengthen your painting skills
    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...
    65 views1 comment
    Artistic Discipline
    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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    How I teach Still Life Classes...
    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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    Abstracting the Landscape
    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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    The painting process
    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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    The Lure of the Nocturne
    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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    Why Pastel is the Best Medium for Capturing Light Effects
    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
    67 views1 comment

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