Tips & Tricks: 3 Ways to Build an Art Habit

by | Build Your Skill

In today’s Tips and Tricks I highlight 3 strategies for cultivating your artist habit: Your three articles for today: Creative Spirit Crystal Moody Creative Spirit Samantha Bennett How to Travel with Your Creativity Are you looking to find time, make space and commit...

Tips and Tricks: The Power of Negative Space

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  Many artists don’t feel they measure up until they can draw realistically from observation or from photo reference. As an art teacher I encourage students to learn all of the skills they can so that when they reach a point of creating original artwork, they...

Creative Spirit Tiffany Besonen

by | How to be An Artist

Tiffany Besonen is an artist and art teacher living with her husband and two children on a century-old farm. As an artist, she works both two and three-dimensionally, and has exhibited throughout the Midwest and in New York City. When she isn’t making or teaching art,...

Quick Tip: Perspective and Your Pencil

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Today on Artist Strong I offer you a quick video tip on using your pencil as a tool for understanding angles and spatial relationships. It’s not just a drawing utensil, it can help you make accurate observations from images and from life. (P.S. We are a little...