
You Need Bad Paintings to Make Great Ones
Bad paintings. We always want to avoid doing them and yet, we need the bad ones to get to the good ones, the ones where we make a breakthrough!

Bad paintings. We always want to avoid doing them and yet, we need the bad ones to get to the good ones, the ones where we make a breakthrough!

Fly with pastels and streamline your supplies—see what I pack, why I pack it, and how I make it through airport security stress-free!

Artist Susan Ellis paints the clammers of coastal Massachusetts. She shares her process and her love of painting these figures working in the mud.

Finding a new Virtual Assistant didn’t go as planned… but here’s why I’m still grateful.

Discover how a simple snapshot, even from a moving vehicle, can spark an inspiring painting, as I show you how to ‘see’ the potential hidden in those quick photos!

Julie Freeman, hyperrealist in soft pastels, shares her work and process as well as the evolution of her artist identity and creative expression.

Gail shares guidelines on how to paint reflections on water. She takes you through a demo to illustrate them. It’s from the IGNITE! Membership.

A detailed examination into a pastel painting of New York by Everett Shinn. We’ll see how he gets to the essence of the scene.

See how Gail simplifies a street view in Trequanda, Tuscany by focusing on what matters most…to her!

Sometimes, it’s the unplanned encounters that make painting on location truly special.
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