Yes, you suck at painting right now. You just started and your intimidated by your teachers’ and/or peer’s skills. Or maybe you’ve been doing this for a while and you just feel like you’re inferior to your fellow artists around you. Sometimes, you even feel like you struggle with…

Alright, now that I have your attention, let’s get the first thing out of the way. If you’re reading this, you are probably not a client of an artist. You ARE the artist. Your clients are not going to care about this article at all, but it is in your interest to…

From time to time, I have students imply they “already know how to do something” I’m trying to explain or demonstrate to them. Unsurprisingly, they actually don’t understand it at all and in fact also have a huge issue trying to do the thing…

Many artists, including myself, have spent plenty of hard-earned dollars at the frame shop. After a while, it…

When we are starting a composition in our drawing or painting, we need to figure out what our beginning marks are. The way I would suggest this is taking the primary subject or overall composition and break the most large shapes down in…

My students and fellow colleagues always ask me, “How do you protect your drawings when you are done? What fixitif do you recommend? There are so many to choose from?”