I'm learning how to paint realistic portraits with acrylic paint and the Zorn palette: Carbon Black, Cadmium Red Light, Yellow Ochre and Titanium White. The ...

It's hard to think about the future when there is so much uncertainty about our health, our economy, and our future as a nation. My family and I are all safe...

I remember when I was an art major that my professors were always talking about providing context and creating meaning in our work. We learned about the hist...

The 100 Day Portrait Challenge is a free Instagram art challenge hosted by artist A.J. Alper. He generously shares his tips, advice, and video demos on how t...

Reflections from a First-Time Inktober Artist Inktober 2019 Day 1 (left) and Day 30 (right) Hello! It’s been a little while since I’ve posted to my website. ...

Today’s exercise is to make a negative space drawing of a landscape. I spent about 30 minutes on this. I realized that the leaves of the yellow trees behind ...

Today I practiced making 5 minute drawings of a landscape photo. I alternated between drawing fast for 5 minutes and drawing slow for 5 minutes. I learned so...

View of my backyard Toned Tan Sketch Paper, Pencil, Charcoal, Pastel 9 x 12 in. What I Learned Strathmore Toned Tan Sketch Paper is very smooth – I wanted so...

Day 10 The New Girl at School New Girl at School Photo Reference What I Learned I learned how to draw the Golden Ratio around your still life setup. Use the ...

Day 9 – The New Girl at School pencil on paper I spent today’s drawing focusing on measuring angles and making accurate proportions. A. LOT. OF. TIME. I only...

Day 8 – A White Jug The Whole Setup What I Learned Drawing from life was extremely frustrating. I kept erasing my previous drawings instead of moving on to a...

Day 7 – Blind Contour Drawings in 15 minutes Today I set up a still life and practiced making as many blind contour drawings as I could in 15 minutes. I enj...

Day 6 Cow Portrait Today’s challenge is to practice drawing fur and hair. I noticed that the printout I made of the stock photo reproduces the shadows and co...

Day 5 – Value Drawing of a Girl. Instead of drawing shapes, I worked on making a drawing using a range of values. Values are the degrees of how light or dark...

Day 4 – 5 minute Contour Drawings – Pitt Big Brush I played around with different kinds of pens so I could see what kind of marks I liked to make. This one w...

Day 3: Contour Drawing – 20 minutes. This morning, I made my contour hand drawings using a Pigma Micron pen (Size 05). This is the last one I made and it’s m...

Today I worked on blind contour drawings of my hand. In a blind contour drawing, you make the drawing with one continuous line and don’t look down at the pag...

Credit: MorgueFile Photo by BBoomerinDenial The 100 Day Project has begun! For today’s 1-hour drawing, I worked on making a pencil drawing using this photo r...