TODAY'S FEATURED POST
Step By Step: Portrait In Oil
Back in 2017, I attended a working art retreat with friends. I was working in games, so my day job work was all digital, and I was itching to get the traditional media out and paint. I didn’t feel a pressing desire to paint a fantasy scene or portfolio piece at the time. I’d been meaning to paint a portrait of my mother and had taken photos the last time I visited her with that…
YESTERDAY’S POST
Stepping Stones
June 26, 2024 - A wise art teacher gave me a piece of advice that I’ve never forgotten, and I want to pass it on to you. I had left my job as a math teacher to go back to school and learn about illustration…but after about one semester of steady progress, I hit a flat spot and I started really struggling in my drawing classes. I felt like I was going backwards, and it seemed obvious that I was doing worse every day. I told the teacher I thought I’d lost something and was that I was considering the possibility that I had made a huge mistake. She told me that these phases of struggle happen to everyone at some point- and that when they do, you should “get down on your knees and be thankful”l because the…
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