Procreate and Me
I’ve been hesitant for as long as I can remember. It all started with electronic music. Kraftwerk and the long history of technology as a means to make…
Filed underThe Self-Taught Artist
Why learn an artistic skill? What does it take? How to enjoy the process, the tangents and the mistakes? When does it all come together?
How to Start Drawing
Let’s say you want to draw or paint. Where do you start? You might Google the most basic question: how to draw? You might go to the library…
The Art you Want to Make
The best feeling about making art is realizing that there was nothing there, and suddenly, there is. There was no drawing, no painting, no photograph, no essay, no…
How the Creative Independence Guide was Created.
It started with the nagging feeling that I was, in fact, not creative. That I couldn’t call myself an artist. That I could not make my ideas click.…
The Self-Taught Artist and Our Piles of Work
During these interrupted times, moments of disconnection are so important. I’m so proud of my husband and me for implementing No-Modem Sundays in September. You probably are sick…
Go from Intermediate to Advanced Watercolor
If you are a self-taught artist, it can become difficult to make enough progress to go from beginner to intermediate to advanced. If you are looking for books,…
Learning to Use Colored Pencils.
I bought a box of Prismacolor pencils in 2017, back when I was buying everything in my innocent belief that better materials would make me a better artist.…
Best Creative Photography Classes for Beginners
I’ve been taking photos since my first iPod touch which I got in 2013 and as I swiped through those pixelated, heavily filtered images, it was clear that…
Do we need Art School to feel legitimate?
This past winter I had my head in a space of despair: what should I do with my life? The howl of our times. I had been on…
Skillshare for Creative Thinking
Learning online has become an addiction for me, however in the beginning I was constantly striving to try to recreate the same thing that the teacher did. Quickly…
Practicing one thing at a time
Today I felt like drawing. Yet I still struggle with focusing on one thing at a time instead of going on one hundred tangents. A creative’s dilemma. It’s…
Can you teach someone to find their (artistic) style?
One of the most asked questions in the illustration and visual arts world is “how to find your style”. When you’re starting out, that becomes huge once you…