How it feels to paint with an audience and why you should! For the past month, I have been working in public on a large-scale painting in...

by Shawn Dell Joyce Recently, one of the artists in my painting studio asked me confidentially if it's possible to get worse instead of...

I’m a big proponent of the idea that there is a creative power in the universe that will move heaven and earth to help me on my artistic...

Its the holidays and there is consumerism everywhere-we are inundated with increasingly more targeted ads. It won't be long before...

When you paint, it often feels like a solitary practice. But it isn't, and it doesn't have to be. We artists need a sense of community to...

This blog from last year rings so true to me today that I'm giving it another play. Many iof you are new subscribers so this may be the...

This is the final installment (part 3 of 3) of a short piece of historical fiction from my upcoming trilogy of stories based on the...

Folks, I am just arriving in NY and getting ready for a couple weeks of painting in places the Hudson River School painted 250 years ago....

As I pack to head up to the Hudson Valley to teach a workshop at Olana, I'm going to give you a sneak peek at my latest work of fiction....

Many artists I've met proudly proclaim that they are "self-taught" and for many years, I often said that myself because I didn't learn...

Transcendentalism, symbols and meanings in my paintings by Shawn Dell Joyce Ever see the light filtering through the trees and it leaves...

The International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) convenes every other year in Albuquerque, NM. I've been wanting to go for years,...

"Success happens in clusters." -Julia Cameron; The Artist's Way We artists need each other. It's a simple fact. While many artists may...

I'm my last session of my advanced pastel class at Dunedin Fine Art Center, I had a conversation with my people about what keeps them...

Continued from last week... Then I blamed myself for being too old, or maybe our genes were stale, or I gained weight at the wrong pace...

A short story based on the Hudson River School and the philosophy of Transcendentalism. The storm howled outside the tiny RV rocking and...

Many realist painters do not have to look far for inspiration, others work from inspired series (figures in the landscape, sunsets,...

(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...

(I've been traveling for workshops and will be back to my regularly scheduled art blog next week, bear with me!) Ok, so I have an older...

Lessons from Olana and painting on hallowed ground... For the past month I've been teaching a plein air pastel class at Olana, this...