Category Archives: Weekly Art Lessons 71-80
Red and Green – The Special Relationship of Complementary Colors (Online art lesson #76)
Red and Green are THE Color Couple of the season, but have you heard the gossip? They can neutralize each other in a heartbeat; that’s their little secret! You see them snuggled up together everywhere this time of year, and side by side each makes the other look brighter. Mix them together, however, and they wipe each other out. 
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Watching the Light Return (Online art lesson # 77)
We’ve passed the Solstice – the days are getting longer now.
It is the season to celebrate the return of light.
Landscape painters study light with particular scrutiny and learn to see beauty in all the nuances. I know you’re busy this week, but when you need to drive or walk, study the light. Even if you just have time for a glance out the window, ask “What is uniquely beautiful about this particular light?”… Read the rest
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Flowing into the New Year (Online art lesson #78)
Best Wishes for a New Year filled with Positive Creativity!
Learning to “go with the flow” is one of the essentials of the creative life. Going with the flow doesn’t mean being passive, it means accepting what IS (not what you expected or what you think “should” be). Learning to maneuver in shifting currents will keep you from capsizing and you’ll have a much better time navigating the river of life.
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Three Powerful Benefits of Photographing Your Art Throughout the Creative Process (Online art lesson # 79)
It’s so easy to take good photos of your paintings. We snap away with digital cameras and edit on our computers. We know immediately if we “got it” or not.
It used to be that artist’s took slides and bracketed to help insure proper exposure. We were always reluctant to bracket because of limited budgets. Then we used silver tape and framed out each slide by hand because it was rare that a piece was the same proportion as the slide frame.… Read the rest
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