Enough with boring, tedious tutorials and overwhelming follow along videos. My goal is provide you with mountains of art exercises & ideas to help you explore your world with creativity. My approachable, engaging and explorative lessons teach common art techniques using a wide variety of mediums and methods. From the basics like line, color, texture, form, composition, to the -isms, the masters, art history and more, I’m determined to help even the proclaimed NON-ARTISTS out there see how easy, relaxing and rewarding making art of all kinds can be!
Head to Art School
Here’s a list of just a few art school projects to get you started:
- Line Basics: Contour vs. Gestural vs. Implied
- Line Basics – Blind Contour Drawings
- Line Basics: Hatch Lines and Mark Making to Imply Light and Dimension
- How to Draw a Historic Home
- How to Draw a Globe
- How to Draw a Lantern
- How to Draw and Prickly Pear Cactus
- How to Draw The View Out the Airplane Window
- and more…
Start a Creative Journal
Keeping a journal, whether it is of my day or an extensive trip is one of the most satisfying creative activities I do. Here’s a full list of journaling basics and creative journal templates. Below are a few ideas to get you started.
- The Benefits of Keeping a Travel Journal & Taking Your Art on the Go
- Travel Journal: An Afternoon Outing in Woodside, CA
- Travel Journal: Meandering on Miyajima, Japan
- Travel Journal: Wandering San Francisco’s Chinatown
- Travel Journal: My Favorite Corner in New York City
- and more…
Design Lessons & Articles
Keeping a journal, whether it is of my day or an extensive trip is one of the most satisfying creative activities I do. Here’s a full list of journaling basics and creative journal templates. Below are a few ideas to get you started.