Take Your Artwork to the Next Level Create Commissionable Pet Portraits! Here are my 5 Best Tips for Starting a Pet Portrait Business: 1: Create a Portfolio If you’re just starting out, the first thing to do is build your portfolio. Draw your own pets, friends, and family pets too. It’s also a good idea to have a few portraits …
That’s the million-dollar question I get all the time! You can get realistic drawings and paintings with this ONE technique! Hello Fellow Artists! 🎨 Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I answer this question because the answer solves many other challenges with any artwork, such as colored pencils and watercolors. Which means I’m always repeating …
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I don’t know about you, but when I start a new project, I could spend half my day choosing colors! Especially if it’s a pet portrait commission that depends on the subject’s likeness. Picking a color palette for your next project can be daunting! Selecting colors requires observation and understanding of the color tones and shades. Here …
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Hello Fellow Artists! 🌻 👩🏻🎨 Wow! What a memorable and wonderful week at the 30th Annual International CPSA Exhibit and Convention. The big news is that our own Tracy Frein from Chicago won the Best of Show and the CIPPY Award! Yay Tracy! Below is a photo of me accepting the award for Tracy; unfortunately, he could not be at the …
Hello Fellow Artists! 🌻 👩🏻🎨 I hope you’re all having a wonderful summer and are enjoying the great(Hot)weather! I’m headed off to Florida this week for the 30th Annual International Colored Pencil Society of America’s Exhibit & Convention. (I know! That was a mouthful! 🤓 Ha Ha!) I’m the newly elected Chicago Chapter President, so it’s my …
Hello Fellow Artists! 🌻 👩🏻🎨 I hope your July 4th Holiday was safe and fun! I’m just now catching up and back at the drawing board! Yay! 🤗 I recently surveyed all my email subscribers, it was the best thing to do! I now see what everybody is having challenges with regarding colored pencils. And …
🎨 Hello Fellow Artists! I found a cool thing on Faber Castell’s website; blank Polychromos color charts for making swatches! Spring is on its way and you know what that means right? Organizing your art supplies! Part of my little clean-up this Spring is re-doing my pencil color swatches. My old Polychromos pencil swatches were …
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🎨 Hello Fellow Artists! I don’t know about you but sometimes colored pencils really test my patience. 🙄 It’s a slow medium I know, and that’s one of the reasons I love them so much; colored pencils are super relaxing and therapeutic to draw with. But sometimes I’ve got a commission to finish and I’m …
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🌟 The most important rule in colored pencil art…Keep your pencils sharp! There are only a few times when you won’t want your colored pencil too sharp- if you’re burnishing or pressing really hard to blend the layers or filling in the background and you just want to get pigment on the paper. I like …
