An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

I spent this morning at the local Hawthorne Park Activity Fair promoting watercolor. I brought my journals and did a little discussion of t...

Just got back from 11 day trip cross country between northern Wisconsin and central FL (home). Many wonderful adventures. A few of the sket...

"He set out to reinvigorate painting and he did just that. The French artist became the conduit between the Impressionist past and the ...

On Wednesday it was the last meeting of the Manito Art League (Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin). Artist, Jane Schmaltz, presented the group wi...

Our canoe ride this afternoon was quite magical. Little Lake Tippecanoe is settling down now to wait for winter. The reds have turned to ru...

Say that 5 times fast! :-) I did this as a demo of the underpainting at my class on Sept 15. But for the actual paper painting I worked on...

My hubby is always my first critic. He liked this painting very much. Words like "bright", "cheerful", "eye catch...

There's always that time...when you wonder if you are done. And of course, as Judi Betts always says, "No painting is ever done. ...

There are some fun styles I like to work with on black gesso. There is NO problem getting things to "pop" out. Color just has a ...

Today is a good day to do a little work in the studio so I pulled out that image I did of the Apple Cake ingredients. I did the preliminary...

Today is the first day of fall , the autumnal equinox , where the sun is directly above the equator and the length of day and night are nea...

One of the things we did in my class last Wednesday was to talk about "themes" or painting in a "series" and how powerfu...

The paper painting and acrylic class I taught was today in Woodruff, WI. I taught 5 gals and we so enjoyed being together in a cozy place o...

One always has SUCH a variety of subjects and styles in any class. This one was no exception. The pumpkins are in underpainting stage with ...

My friend, Lou Fitton, in Canada was talking by email to me the other day about "posterizing" a photo and then using it as a usefu...

I was in the grocery yesterday and when I went by the peppers they just knocked my socks off with the color. There is something about fall h...

I know, I know. It's not even officially autumn yet. But if you want to get your Christmas card into the printer and have it proofed a...

This was the last workshop day for me. Many participants spent an extra $150 to take the marketing workshop he and his wife Kate put on tomo...

I am starting with one of Bob's paintings first today. This is, believe it or not, a watercolor. When he completes this, he sprays it ...

Those of you who have taken a Burridge workshop before have some concept of how "outside the box" this workshop really is! Most o...