This weekend I was inspired by one of the prompts in our February Creativity Project guide, appropriately named Friendship and centered around love, kindness, and connection. The prompt is a simple invitation with watercolors and pastels, and the possibilities are endless. These hearts are channeling a little Jim Dine, who […]
Month: November 2022
How Do We Help Student Artists With Cognitive Learning Barriers?
Note: This article will use People First Language since we do not know the reader’s preference. You spent time planning an amazing art lesson, taught it passionately, and now you are excited for your students to start making. You look over your classroom and see blank stares and students scrolling […]
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2022 & Events
This week the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters opens to the public at the Mall Galleries on Thursday, 24th November 2022. I haven’t been to one since 2019 – so am really looking forward to going this year. This is after the ROI experienced the worst […]
BmoreArt’s Picks: November 22-28 – BmoreArt
Gersheimer Art in Hampden 2022 “Industrial Constructs” | Closing ReceptionSaturday, November 26 • 4-8pm@ Davenport Imports An exhibition by an innovator, carpenter, and builder by trade who expresses his art through a passion of hands-on work sparked in elementary school. Davenport Imports & Arts Gallery and Curation Space on “The […]
“Maximilian Arnold: Splinters” at MATTA, Roma
By creating collages from an endless archive of images, the painter chooses the technique as the structural basis to his work. He transfers his own stencils onto canvas to paint on polyester with acrylic paint. Working on it repeatedly with a clutter of tools also apart from the brush, canvas […]
Sketching with Watercolor at the Medici Fountain in Paris
In Paris last month I did some sketching at one of my favorite spots, the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens. This is a little video preview of me sketching. The full 10-minute video sharing the process of creating these two sketches is a free bonus course available to my […]