Monet and Impressionism
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in...
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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
Sep 24, 20222 min read
Color As Value
One of my favorite challenges in my Advanced Pastel Techniques class (next session is at Dunedin Fine Art Center Winter 1, Thursday...
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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 20, 20212 min read
Simplifying Your Subject Into Blocks of Value and Color
One of the hardest things for me to do is to keep it simple. I'm a complicated person. I can complicated my way out of a paper bag! I...
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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
Jul 10, 20213 min read
Color Temperature and Henry Hensche
In my class; "Classical Training for Artists" we are studying color theory and the work of "Every form change is a color change..."...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Mar 7, 20212 min read
The Ugly Stage
Every painting has an ugly stage. You know when you are about 30% into it and its not working out the way you want and your mind starts...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Feb 6, 20212 min read
Starting with Watercolor...
Each medium has it's strength, and weakness. Pastel is magic because you can layer color, and even light over dark and dark over light...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Dec 13, 20204 min read
Stopping yourself 15 minutes before you think your done, or "Conquering Perfectionism"
Perfectionism makes me silent when I need to speak up. Because I stumble over words, I often choose to be quiet instead of speaking my true
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Nov 16, 20203 min read
Abstracting the Landscape
When I'm plein air painting, I have a different process than when I'm painting in the studio. In plein air, you have a short period of...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 31, 20203 min read
The painting process
If I were to describe my painting process here, it would be back-to front, and dark-to-light. That means I started with the big shapes of ..
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 10, 20202 min read
Abstracting the Landscape Part 2
What we have done so far is break it down into values and shapes. At this point, we can start assigning color to those shapes.
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 4, 20202 min read
Abstracting the Landscape
Starting off with a good Gestalt is key to making a good painting.
To determine the Gestalt, you may need to abstract the design down to the
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