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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Mar 13, 20233 min read
Pushing it to 10 Values!
When you become comfortable working with 5 values from dark to light, it's time to push that envelope to 10 values! Remember if you have...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Nov 14, 20223 min read
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
Oct 25, 202210 min read
What its like to participate in a plein air competition...
Many of you ask me about competing professionally and how to get into the plein air circuit of events. Here's a blog to get you going, or...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
May 22, 20223 min read
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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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Apr 10, 20222 min read
Simplifying a Figure into Value Blocks and Shapes
Figures bring a human element to any landscape, especially beach scenes. But many artists are intimidated by the figure, and feel they...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Feb 28, 20222 min read
Changing the direction of the light in plein air (Planar Values)
Nature almost never gives you perfect light, and the time to paint it! Very often you must make up the light, or intensify it when it...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Feb 5, 20222 min read
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, 20224 min read
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
Jan 7, 20223 min read
Color Studies May Just Save Your Life!
Color studies may save your life! How to plan a painting. Preparatory sketches.
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Dec 12, 20212 min read
Painting Waves and Water in Motion
Plein air painting in Florida means that at some point you will be painting water in motion, and probably at the beach. Painting anything...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Dec 4, 20214 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20214 min read
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
Nov 6, 20213 min read
Doing things that scare the hell out of you artistically!
(Like starting a new class where you feel over your head, and out of your league) We all feel scared and overwhelmed at some point-if you...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 9, 20214 min read
Kindred Spirits
Lessons from Olana and painting on hallowed ground... For the past month I've been teaching a plein air pastel class at Olana, this...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 1, 20213 min read
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, 20215 min read
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
Sep 16, 20213 min read
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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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Aug 14, 20215 min read
Believing Mirror-why we artists need each other
"Success happens in clusters..." Julia Cameron The Artist's Way I asked my friend A. (for anonymous) how her painting was going in a...
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