What to Do With Unfinished Paintings: Keep Exploring, Don’t Refine
Come back to an unfinished painting and want to “fix” it? Don’t refine it. Keep exploring with new ideas like hard edges, bursts, and collage.
Watercolor Workout: Basics & Beyond
Build your watercolor fundamentals with 5+ hours of video exercises, from first washes to finishing projects. Great for beginners and experienced painters alike.
18 Day Watercolor Challenge
18 days of easy, fun watercolor challenges. Start from scratch with simple objects and build confidence in value, color, and composition.
Stop Painting Halfway: An Exercise to Avoid Overworking Your Art
Overworking your paintings? Try stopping on purpose, way before you think you’re done. A simple exercise to keep your art fresh, loose, and raw.
How to Break Your Drawing Habits (Change Your First Decision)
Stuck drawing the same way every time? Try this: whenever your brain says where to start, do the opposite. A simple loose portrait exercise.
Why I Paint the Same Subject Over and Over (and Why You Should Too)
Why I’ve painted the same simple bottle for 12+ years: the subject is just a way to explore. Construct it, push it, and find new ways to paint it.
How to Get Better at Painting
Looking for the one secret to better painting? There isn’t one. Show up, make ugly paintings, find your own way, and layer over your rejects.
How to Loosen Up a Tight Acrylic Painting (The Paper Smear Trick)
Acrylic painting feeling too tight? Smear it with paper and a spray bottle, use a paper straight edge, and balance crisp and messy edges.
Easy Cat Painting: Paint Symbols, Not Every Whisker
Skip the 47 whiskers. Paint loose, playful green cats over collage paper and a reject using simple shapes, bold color, and a little line work.
How to Take More Risks in Watercolor (Stop Painting So Safe)
Painting too safe? Paint one object several times, change the color, size, and detail, and let your watercolor surprise you. Plus a Savannah dinner story.
How to Start an Art Career: My Accidental Start as a Sidewalk Artist
I never planned an art career. A bamboo bike, a breakup, and a sidewalk in Florida got me started. Plus a juice bottle painting over an old reject.
Abstract Bird Painting: Loose Roosters and Two Strange Bird Stories
Paint loose abstract birds over a reject with big shapes and an explore mindset, plus two strange bird stories and a lesson on following ideas.