Still Painting! The drawing and painting challenge is over. What to do next? Continue painting! Going for 60 plus days! Changing Challenges. Greetings! Yesterday marked the end of the Strada Easel 31 Drawings and Paintings From Life January challenge. And, today is the start of the Saeta Studio’s 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge. […]
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I have learned a thing or two, (or three or lots!) over the past 31 days of the #stradaeasel “Drawing and Painting From Life” Challenge. Update: there were about 500 artists participating in the challenge! What fun! I’d like to share my initial impressions of “lessons learned” for doing the challenge. Goal Accomplished! But
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About The Easel. Greetings! Only five days left in the Strada Easel January Challenge! This month seems to be flying by all of a sudden! Life became busy and next thing I know, its Day 26! Recently, I was asked the question “what makes a Strada Easel so special?” What an excellent question
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Its About Doing Studies. What I’d like to do with today’s article is talk to you about why I do studies. You might have noticed that I’m called my drawings and paintings for the Strada Easel challenge “studies”. I’m doing that for a reason: I’m studying! With this article, I’ll also be current in posting
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Experimenting With Paper and Paint. Greetings! Strada Easel challenge day 18 studies are about experimenting. For my first piece, I decided to try Daniel Smith‘s “Moonglow”, a lovely blend of pigments that make a nice neutral grayish tint. The experiment? Getting a feel for how the blend of pigments handles. This first study was done
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Muddy Is Good. Day 17, #stradaeasel Challenge. Greetings! Today’s muddy color study is Day 17 of the #stradaeasel challenge. I was pleased with the grays I used today and thought I’d share with you how I achieved these subtle colors. The Set Up. To begin with, today’s still life set up was gray. What
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Greetings! Its Day 16 and I’d like to talk about inspiration! To explain, I have been plugging away at the Strada Easel 31 Days in January Challenge. Looking at all I’ve done, I thought it might be a good idea to start grouping some of the paintings together in order to eventually post all 31
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Challenge Time. I have decided to try my hand in participating in a 31 day art challenge this upcoming January 2018. Strada Easel is hosting the challenge for artists. To explain, the idea is to draw or paint from life every day. Also, artists post their work along with the hashtag #stradaeasel to their facebook page.
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Introduction. A friend of mine recently asked me how organizing my art work day. My friend is looking forward to retirement and thinking about painting. In my head, I started going though organizing my mundane daily schedule: coffee, exercise, breakfast, get to the studio, etc. Then, I started thinking about whether or not there was
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Greetings! I am pleased to say that my painting “Espresso Time-R” is in the 2017 Annual Member’s Exhibition at the Rogue Gallery. Exhibition Details. This is to let you know the where and when of the show. Location: Rogue Gallery and Art Center, 40S Bartlett St., Medford OR Opening Reception: Friday, November
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