by Carrie | Build Your Skill
Have you ever wanted to better capture likeness in your portraits of people? Have you ever wondered if you could? When I was little I got this idea in my head that the only measure of being a good artist was to draw realistically. Not only should I be able to draw...
by Carrie | Build Your Skill
You may not know this, but drawing or painting from life is a completely different skill set than working from a photograph. Think about it for a minute. When you work from photo reference, you are observing another two-dimensional image. When you work from life,...
by Carrie | Build Your Skill
In today’s Q&A session Mary asks me about making the switch to smaller brushes when I’m working on painting. When do I switch to small brushes? How do I use them? And do I keep separate brushes for different colors? With the quick drying time of something like...
by Carrie | Build Your Skill, Develop Your Unique Artist Voice
“You murder your paintings.” This is some of the only feedback I remember from my university days. And while it clearly stung enough I remember it to this day, I also remember agreeing in complete frustration with my professor when she and I talked about my work....
by Carrie | How to be An Artist
Andrea Holmes is a Texas based mural artist and painter. Andrea is the host of Birdtober, co-founder of My Fairy Art Mother, co-host of McKinney Creative Community, and she serves on the MillHouse McKinney Art Events Team. She has an Associates in Art and a Bachelors...
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