Monday Morning Art School: thinking outside the box
Unless you can build the box, define the box and work inside the box you’re not thinking outside the box. You’re just being random.
Batten down the hatches!
“Pray for the best and prepare for the worst,” as they say. We’ve done our best.
Why we buy art supplies
You can spend hundreds of dollars buying paint and supplies that are useless or redundant. Why are you shopping in the first place?
Monday Morning Art School: Painting the ocean
The ocean complicates matters by being bouncy, but it reflects light the same way as does glass or tinfoil.
Quantity vs. quality
I like plein air festivals, but I also recognize their potential to be corrosive to the very spirit of plein air painting.