I found a photo app, Prisma, for the iphone that takes a photo and reworks it in various art styles. It’s given me some ideas about trying different color harmonies and line quality. Here’s some examples using the same photo: I also found this interesting blog post that I wanted to share with you, “Painting Fundamentals for… Continue reading If you’re looking for fresh ideas
Category: Instructional
Painting Design
This is a link sent out by one of our members. It’s a short video by Matt Smith illustrating how to divide and organize areas on your canvas at the beginning of a painting. Matt Smith Video
Selecting a Point of Interest in Your Painting
I came across the blog. Though these are watercolor paintings, the artist does a good job of showing two different perspectives of one scene. Check it out. Just click on this linkhttp://www.briennebrownart.com/decide-on-one-center-of-interest/
Reasons Why Plein Air Paintings Fail
This was sent to me and I thought some of you might like to see what one artist views as the top ten reasons why paintings fail. Just click on the link. https://kathleendunphy.com/blog/83755/plein-errors-the-top-ten-reasons-plein-air-paintings-fail
Marketing Our Art Meeting Very Enlightening
Coraly, Suzanne, Judy, Michele and Maggie each did a presentation on marketing art and discussed it from various avenues: online, through your website, at Open Studio events, or at plein air events/competitions. It was extremely informative and stimulating and especially helpful because each artist bought their own personal experiences to the fore. Thank you, Coraly… Continue reading Marketing Our Art Meeting Very Enlightening
Help to Tap into those Creative Ideas
I was recently sent this. Sometimes I find it difficult to get started and I feel stale. If that happens to you,these suggestions my help. Just click on the link below. Lorraine 12 Ideas for Keeping Things Fresh in Your Art Studio
santacruzoilpainters Thank you!
Big thanks to Ann and Michele for yesterday’s demo. Now I can go back to my painting and see if I can resolve my tree problem. Lorraine
Critique at Eunice’s
Thanks Eunice!
Display panels
Jean has been asking about the display panels I made. I thought somebody else might be interested as well, so here are the instructions. They are pretty easy to put together. The A-frames fit into a smaller space and are more stable on uneven ground, but the tri-panels can be configured in multiple ways. You… Continue reading Display panels
Reflections on Water
This was an email in response to Skip who was painting a scene of Mirror Lake in Yosemite, but when she visited the lake was dry and she wanted to create the effect of reflections on water—- “Interesting questions and interesting project, adding water to a dry lake. I agree that reflections are squatter than… Continue reading Reflections on Water