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A Fine TIme For Plein Air
Story & Photography by Leslie Joy Ickowitz guest blogger this week while Shawn Dell Joyce is moving... It’s a picture perfect, crisp fall...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Adding a Figure to a Plein Air Painting
Adding a figure into a composition-while you are painting it en plein air-is always a challenge. I prefer to work from live models on the...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Jan 29
- 4 min
What Makes You Tick?
A friend recently asked me “if you didn’t have to sell your art, or teach art, would you still do it?” My answer is “Hail yeah! I’d still...
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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
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
Painting Trees
Painting Palms and trees with Shawn Dell Joyce Treat trees as value masses and start with your darkest darks and get them down first:...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Nov 13, 2021
- 4 min
Sighting and Sight-Sizing in the landscape
This week's demo and topic in Plein Air Adventure was on using the tool of sighting to gauge a measurement, and basing every measurement...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Making 100 Shades of Green
How to mix greens and avoid the "salad bowl effect" by Shawn Dell Joyce When you paint landscapes, especially plein air, you use a lot of...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Sep 26, 2021
- 5 min
Working up a painting from sketch to completion ALLA PRIMA!
When you are just starting out, it can be daunting to paint a larger or more complicated painting. I've heart novice artists say that...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
- Dec 13, 2020
- 4 min
Stopping yourself 15 minutes before you think your done, or "Conquering Perfectionism"
Perfectionism makes me silent when I need to speak up. Because I stumble over words, I often choose to be quiet instead of speaking my true
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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
- 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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