It was around this time last year that my web-designer & I were putting the finishing touches on LindasFineArtsStudio.com, the cyber-showcase & e-storefront for my paintings & drawings. It had been an exciting, albeit daunting, project that I’d been...
When I first started art school – exactly 21 years ago this month! – I remember telling my instructor, “I just want to learn how to draw.” (In fact, since childhood, I had “just” wanted to learn how to draw.) Now that the opportunity to do so was...
In a couple of recent blogs, we explored the practice of copying as an integral part of the artist’s apprenticeship & we did this in two different contexts. On one hand, art students copy the drawings & paintings of the Old & Modern Masters as a...
In a recent blog, I described the process of copying from the Modern Masters within the context of learning how to draw. The other context in which my students copy is when they are learning a specific medium, such as colored pencil or watercolor. Here we copy...
Last month Tom & I drove up to Milwaukee for the annual Bead & Button Show, billed as the “biggest consumer bead show in the world.” For 13 days, an astounding number of jewelry-making classes are on offer, ranging from light-hearted, 3-hour “make &...
