Artist Strong Blog

Sometimes, it feels like no matter how hard you try, you are stuck. And that no matter how much you practice, you just can’t bring your art to the next level. It’s completely normal, but… it’s also completely possible to move past that feeling of stuckness and grow...

It’s easy to throw around the term skill without fully understanding its definition or application in the arts. So, what is skill? And how do artists use it? Hi, my name is Carrie and here on Artist Strong I help artists build their skill and develop their unique...

I’ve had conversations with people who say they are “bad” at art, and it got me thinking about definitions of being good or bad. What does it actually mean when someone says they are bad, or good, at art? Hi, my name is Carrie and here on Artist Strong I help artists...

There are so many YouTube videos, Instagram how-tos, and blog based tutorials it’s easy to get lost in the research and not actually show up for your art. So in the spirit of getting you back into the studio, or to your dining room table, here are some of the key...

Abstraction is all about making art that deviates from real life. It’s the idea that we observe something from life, or think about objects we know and recognize, but then choose to distort them in some way.  Coloring books are a simple and easy example of...

Drawing is not just a foundational art skill I encourage all artists to develop, it has countless other benefits. Hi, my name is Carrie and here on Artist Strong I help artists build their skill and develop their unique voice. Today we are talking about the 5 Reasons...

When I taught high school art I can’t begin to tell you the number of parents who came to me, worried their kid just “didn’t have the talent,” so how would they possibly perform well in my art class? And this is just one space where we see cultural norms and...