by Carrie | Style Study Session
Artist Strong Style Study Session: Alice Neel How to Study an Artist’s Style (and What It Can Teach You About Observation, Humanity, and Artistic Voice) How do you create portraits that feel alive? How do you move beyond simply recording what someone looks like...
by Carrie | Build Your Skill
Using References Beyond Realism It’s so easy to get stuck on copying photos. Often they already have a lovely composition, strong contrasts, a balance of colors we find appealing. So, halfway through, when we see it coming together, there’s reluctance to lose the...
by Carrie | Develop Your Unique Artist Voice
How to Rekindle Your Creativity as an Artist In a recent video I talked about the rules and expectations we have around drawing or painting from imagination. And I got this lovely response from someone in the community: And it got me thinking about the importance of...
by Carrie | Develop Your Unique Artist Voice
How to Move Beyond Copying Tutorials and Create Art That Feels Like You “I have problems making my art ‘mine.’” That’s what I thought as I wandered through art classes in high school and even studied art and art history at university. It’s like I was missing some...
by Carrie | Build Your Skill
What Your Brain Has to Do With Getting Better at Drawing From Memory and Imagination Did you know that your brain filters out a huge amount of the information you take in every single day? We are inundated with information, both visual and auditory, as well as...
