Take It to the Limit (Find Your Style Exercise)

Finding your style is not just about finding something you like to look at and then learning how to use your medium to create that look. You also need to consider what you actually enjoy doing enough to learn to do well, what would work for the things you want to express, and probably a lot of other things. Here’s an exercise for exploring (and collecting) things you enjoy doing (not just seeing).

(The Studio Journal Course has more ideas like this!)

Creative Energy Journaling | Finding Your Style | Studio

“Nothing’s Sacred!”

Well, actually, I think pretty much everything is sacred. But, even sacred things can evolve, develop and transform. So your journal pages certainly can! In fact, if you don’t transform certain journal pages, they become the journal equivalent of that mysterious plastic container at the back of the refrigerator. The one that you know you’d better throw away…

Planning Your Own Watercolors | Second Sunday Live Demos | Sketching

Jul 2019: Finding Focus When Working on Location

Some strategies I use to manage the overwhelming amount of information when painting on location, so sketching enhances my enjoyment, instead of raising my stress level. And so I have a better chance of coming back with photos and sketches that I can actually use to create satisfying, personally meaningful paintings.

Planning Your Own Watercolors | Sketching

Avoiding Overwhelm When Sketching on Location (or Working from a Photo)

To avoid overwhelm while sketching (or working from a complicated photo), collect “characters” now, arrange them to tell a story later.

New Artwork | Studio

The “Giant” Painting is Now 3 Panels

Ulp! It’s a scary moment when I finally make the decision where to divide one of these “starts” into the individual panels. No going back! But, I’m happy with where things stand. Even though the paper edges weren’t square, so I’m going to barely have enough height on the first panel to mount the work!…

Finding Your Style

Intuitive Painting—Building in a Starting Structure

Starting with a blank sheet of paper and just doing whatever “feels right” is way too little structure for most of us. This video gives you a step-by-step starting structure that you can improvise on top of to create a dragonfly of your own style.

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The Tiny Escape’s Big Adventure, in 5 Minutes

Just for fun, a quick little video “road trip” with scenes from my travels up and down the west coast in The Tiny Escape, my trusty camper van.

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