One of my HowToPastel subscribers recently reached out to me. She’d been invited to demo in an open space, with COVID-19 precautions in place, but was feeling too afraid to do it. (Her fears weren’t related to the pandemic.) Because I’d recently demoed at Peninsula Gallery where my mini solo show was hanging, I knew
You all know how much I love colour! I love using it, I love seeing it, I love the feeling it gives! And I think this month’s guest, Clarence Porter, loves colour as much as I do 🙂 I encountered Clarence’s work for the first time at the ICAN conference and exhibition in Aurora, Ontario,
We’ve just finished HowToPastel’s 5th Annual 31-pastels-in-31-days Challenge held throughout October. The Challenge is always an opportune time to prioritize art-making. A few days after it ended, however, I began seeing the odd post that expressed feelings of withdrawal and a bit of anxiety and sadness because someone is missing painting every day or they
Animal portraits. Every now and again I get a request for information on how to paint animal portraits. In these cases, it’s best to go to the experts…like Heather Laws. A few years ago, I was taken by one of her cat portraits and featured it in one of my monthly round-ups. You can see
Recently in my IGNITE! membership, I created a mini-course on this question: How should one deal with the foreground in a painting? It’s a common question. I’m going to give you a number of pointers and take you step-by-step through one of my paintings to illustrate what I’m talking about. (If you want to read
Hey! It’s time for another guest post. Whoo hoo! And I was thinking it was time to move to the still life as subject. With this thought came berries in glass and unmade beds….namely the work of this month’s guest, Jeri Greenberg! I’ve featured Jeri’s work three times in my monthly roundups. The first was
Creating art is hard work! Some context….I’m at my Mum and Dad’s on Salt Spring Island. I’ve joined them for their 14-day quarantine on their return to Canada and so far, we’ve had a lovely time together! On our To-Do list is to paint so a couple of days ago, Mum and I set up
I love figurative work! And one figurative artist whose work I admire is Corey Pitkin. I’ve featured his work twice in my monthly roundups. The first time was with Summer Solstice in September 2016 and the second was with The Golden Apple in February 2019. One of the things I love about Pitkin’s work is
The other day my sweetheart Cam said to me, “Come sit here. I want you to see the sunlight on the tablecloth and how vibrant it looks.” Then he paused and said, “But I guess you see that all the time.” And I sat and I looked and I said, “Yes, yes I do.” And
Gareth Jones was one of those artists whose pastels snuck up on me – one day I noticed that they were there! Little did I know that he hadn’t been using pastels for all that long. Certainly, you can’t tell this from his work which feels as if it’s produced by someone comfortable with using
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