Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in...

Story & Photography by Leslie Joy Ickowitz guest blogger this week while Shawn Dell Joyce is moving... It’s a picture perfect, crisp fall...

One of my favorite challenges in my Advanced Pastel Techniques class (next session is at Dunedin Fine Art Center Winter 1, Thursday...

Painting Palms and trees with Shawn Dell Joyce Treat trees as value masses and start with your darkest darks and get them down first:...

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...

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...

In my class; "Classical Training for Artists" we are studying color theory and the work of "Every form change is a color change..."...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ..

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.

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