An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

Below find today's article by Robert Genn . I loved it so much I reprinted it in it's entirety. He is not only a great painter by a...

Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. Poets over the ages have proffered plenty of a...

It's every teacher's hope that their students will not only learn something but also have fun in a class. Today I had such a lovely...

On Wednesday November 17 I had the good fortune to watch a demo done by Ken Austin at the Mt. Dora Florida art league meeting. I had seen K...

My blog buddies are complaining to me...why am I not posting??!! I stand contrite. I have arrived in Fl (Oct 24) and hit the ground runnin ...

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...