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  • 5 Quick Ways to Recolor Your Line Art in CSP

    5 Quick Ways to Recolor Your Line Art in CSP

    Is black line art getting you down? Do you want to see how different line colors change your art? Are you just bored and want to play with some stuff in Clip Studio Paint? Great! This is the place for you! Read on for FIVE ways to recolor your line art in CSP! Pro Tip:…

  • Prompt O’ Ween 2023

    Prompt O’ Ween 2023

    Prompt O’ Ween 2023 was super fun! It was also really tough and I hate having to say that I sort of didn’t finish. I only got to day 20 this year because this whole year has been kicking my butt and October was no exception. What to do?? It was October 31 and a…

  • Prompt O’ Ween 2022

    Prompt O’ Ween 2022

    Day 19. That’s as far as I made it through Prompt O’ Ween 2022. Booooooo! Normally I would just power through and finish up that last little but late, but this year was just too dang busy. Honestly overall it’s been hard to keep up with regular stuff. Throwing a daily challenge on top of…

  • Art for KjARTan’s Sake?

    Art for KjARTan’s Sake?

    Sorry for the cringy title. I put it down as a placeholder figuring I’d come up with something better by the time I got done writing this. You know what else was hard? Coming up with a project for Kjartan Slettemark! He was edgy and political. As much as I admire his work, political is…

  • Sesame Street Drama

    Sesame Street Drama

    Tenebrism is one of my favorite art concepts! The only problem is I get a little heavy handed with my shading. So for this month’s project, which centers on tenebrism and chiaroscuro, I wrangled that urge to make every shadow pitch black. (If you missed my last blog, there’s a quick overview of tenebrism vs.…

  • Digitizing a Master’s Technique

    Digitizing a Master’s Technique

    Technique is something we haven’t talked about enough for Artist of the Month. Lucky for us, Peter Paul Rubens is a *fabulous* master to study when it comes to materials and application in painting! The man was able to finish a masterpiece in a matter of hours thanks to the media and techniques he used.…

  • Art Deco Prompts

    Art Deco Prompts

    Art. Deco. Prompts. When the idea hit me I thought it was brilliant! Then I asked myself what kind of masochist I really am… but that’s how it is with prompts. My poor little brain rides a rollercoaster every single time. In the end it was the perfect solution to the lack of a project…

  • Does Op Art Need Shading?

    Does Op Art Need Shading?

    So far this month we’ve explored the work of Op Art painter Bridget Riley. She spent decades exploring perception and the viewer’s gaze. Is that something I could even begin to touch in this quick project? I decided to keep it simple and do a project I remember from middle school. Only this time I…

  • My February Expressionism Project!

    My February Expressionism Project!

    My Expressionism project for this month was a cute little (digital) painting of two birds. I did the birds, sky, and mountains on separate layers so I could export all of the combinations of primary colors and see how it changed the feeling of the painting. Let’s take a look! The piece was initially done…

  • Impressionist Art – Did I Do It?

    Impressionist Art – Did I Do It?

    When I started my little digital Impressionist painting, I made sure to go in with no expectations. If it came out great – great! If it came out bad – also great! The whole point was to try it out and hopefully learn something along the way.  It was definitely a rough start at first,…