Daily painting

Here are 7 daily painting habit tips (with ideas) to help you start and maintain a consistent painting habit! Building a painting habit and practice can be hard! You know you want your art to improve, but sometimes it feels like you just cannot get motivated enough to paint consistently - or sometimes at all... That's why it's good to have a plan and create a routine that will have you building better habits in no time. See this article for how to get started!

By Carrie Lewis in Art Business Advice > General Art Advice Let’s face it. Most artists can’t afford to be full-time artists. They love to create and they even sell their work, but simply do not earn enough studio income to make quitting their day job feasible. Many of us also have obligations in addition to a full or part-time job (or two). Even the business side of being a part-time artist can gobble up incredible amounts of time. With all of […]

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Julian Merrow-Smith, Baking

Daily paintings from Provence by British artist Julian Merrow-Smith. Postcard from Provence is a project recording the seasons in his adopted home in Provence. This painting is titled 'Flowers in a Blue vase' , and is one of 3667 daily paintings from the artists's studio in France created since 2005

Daily paintings from Provence by British artist Julian Merrow-Smith. Postcard from Provence is a project recording the seasons in his adopted home in Provence. This painting is titled 'Winding road' , and is one of 3667 daily paintings from the artists's studio in France created since 2005

'Poppy Abstraction' 7x5 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $100 You know you should. But it is hard to find time. And even when we do have the time it is often wasted as we try to figure out what to paint. We all have heard the benefit of painting practice and how painting smaller and more frequently can help us improve. Devoting time to put in those important 'miles of canvas' can be a challenge. But it can be done if we take some simple steps. Lower your expectations. Try not to approach…

Julian Merrow-Smith, Lemon suspended

It is difficult to paint round forms and make them realistic, because of the large number of small value changes on the object. If you try to represent these value changes by blending, it is easy to lose the sense of form. Too much blending also destroys the color. To solve this problem, practice painting round forms by squaring off the form first.