I'm going to let you in on something deeply personal. I'm an extrovert. I've never had a problem performing music live. That's my strength. I loved working a crowd back when I was in bands. But art? I really struggled since it's a more personal thing. It's an alone thing…
I finally broke down and bought a mechanical pencil. No, I've never even used one. I've always just used regular pencils. And you know what? There's no way in hell I'm going back to regular pencils. I got regular pencils all over the place. Hundreds of them. Yes, literally. But,…
Artists need repetition if they're going to produce good art. I don't mean painting the same thing over and over. I also don't mean painting in circles. Think of it this way. When you meet a musician, she warms up by practicing her scales over and over again. Her playing…
Monochromatic painting is a technique where you only paint with one color. It began with the avant-garde movement as a new way to express your artwork. Now to be clear, I'm not an avant-garde artist. Regardless, it's a technique I've incorporated because it forces you to get good with the…