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O'Keefe and Composition
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and...
Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Jun 27, 20233 min read
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The Golden Curve and the Fibonacci Sequence
and how it can help your compositions affect viewers on a primal level... I'm a geek. If you are an artist, you probably are too. One of...
Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Jun 19, 20213 min read
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How I teach Still Life Classes...
If you ask 100 different artists how to approach a still life, you may get 100 different answers. In art, there are many paths to the...
Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Dec 6, 20202 min read
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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...
Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Nov 16, 20203 min read
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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.
Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 10, 20202 min read
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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
Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Oct 4, 20202 min read
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