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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Finding Your Tribe
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How to Fudge a Light Source
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Painting Water Reflections
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Portraits and getting a likeness...
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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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Why I fell in love with Mount Vision Pastels
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Color Temperature and why it makes a difference
Most people have no idea what color temperature is. Only geeky artists ever use that term, and maybe a wayward interior decorator. But we...
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To Blend or Not To Blend!
Every pastelist (and many others) face this dilemma on a regular basis. There are two trains of thought when it comes to blending in...
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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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Jan 23, 20214 min read
Switching it up-playing with other mediums to strengthen your painting skills
I cannot overstate the importance of play. As a professional art teacher, I see many novice artists that take themselves so seriously and...
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Jan 10, 20213 min read
Artistic Discipline
We often don't think of art in terms of a discipline. Usually we think art is "outside the box" and creativity "happens," it isn't...
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Dec 6, 20202 min read
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...
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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
Sep 27, 20204 min read
The Lure of the Nocturne
There's a whole new world that opens up when the sun sets. Night changes the values and colors of the landscape; everything becomes low-key,
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Shawn Dell Joyce artist
Aug 30, 20202 min read
Why Pastel is the Best Medium for Capturing Light Effects
Every medium has its strength and weaknesses. If you have experimented with different mediums (most of us do and accumulate closets full of
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