by Emily | Jan 21, 2020 | Artist Life, Lessons
We’ve all been there. You get handed an assignment in school that makes you groan internally. Or a client asks for something that you’re not looking forward to working on. It takes a little exploration, but boring assignments can be turned into interesting...
by Emily | Dec 19, 2019 | Artist Life, Lessons
For this example, I’m using a painting I did at a live model session. Okay, this is a quick one this week, and it has to do with presentation. It’s mostly for the water-based painters and/or anyone who works on illustration board or paper rather than canvas. Just a...
by Emily | Dec 5, 2019 | Science, Story
The designs in the Migration series are based off flight and migration patterns of the species featured. Purchase prints in the Goat Problems Print Shop. Migration. It’s pretty awesome. Here are three birds with some seriously incredible migrations. (Spoiler...
by Emily | Nov 14, 2019 | Artist Life, Lessons
I go to live model sessions at least once a month to practice. I find that painting traditionally and mixing colors by hand improves my skills much faster than working purely digitally. Plus, working from life presents a different challenge than working from...
by Emily | Oct 31, 2019 | Science, Story
Just in time for Halloween, here’s an entirely true scary story. So I mentioned the Radium Girls in my last post on paint toxicity. It’s a story that hasn’t been well known but has been slowly gaining public interest. I’m excited anytime I see someone mention it as...
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