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Studio Visit: Ed Knippers

I love visiting other artists’ studios to see the workspace where they create. It’s like getting a little glimpse into their process. I love seeing how they organize the paints on their palette and how...

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The Color Anatomy of a Painting

This post will be all text for now. I mainly wrote it for painters who have a strong desire to understand color in a new way. It is not new information, but may be new to some readers. Please post...

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Self Portrait Studies

After seeing the ‘Matisse: In Search Of True Painting’ exhibition at The Met, I decided to take a few pointers from Matisse’s process. He painted the same portrait or still life over and over and...

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Environmental Portrait Study

Putting a portrait subject into an environment opens up a whole new world of ideas you can express. I personally like to focus on the portrait subject alone, but I wanted to play around with putting...

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Creative Breaks and Thought Percolation

It has been a few months since my last post, so I thought I would write about the importance of having creative breaks as an artist. Diligence is a powerful practice and discipline for the professional...

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Genesis Arts Camp 2013

Last month I taught high school drawing and painting lessons as well as art lessons for K – 5 students. It was a high energy week of some really incredible art making with talented students. Genesis!...

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Example: Elementary School Art Lesson Plan

This lesson was a favorite of mine because the students loved drawing on puzzle pieces. It was fun and different for them. I also loved being able to tie in a little anecdote about each of us having a...

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Relating Past Work To Current Work

I am still a young artist without decades of experience or work, but I’ve already noticed changes in my technique, voice and aesthetic. I can’t pretend to know everything about being an artist, but...

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The Pursuit of Art

I’m writing this post to shed light on parts of how I interact with art in a spiritual sense. My goal is to keep this post interesting for people who believe in a higher power as well as people who may...

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Identity: An Inherent Theme of Portraiture

This post is about my experience with conveying an identity in a portrait. I read up on the subject in a book called Identity Theory by Peter Burke and Jan Stets. In this post, I’ll describe some of...

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