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Tips, Tricks, Thoughts, and inspiration from across the art spectrum.

The Isolation Coat - It's an Acrylic Thing, You May Not Understand

The Isolation Coat - It's an Acrylic Thing, You...

Mona Lisa

If the phrase "isolation coat" sounds like something they slap on you when you have spent too much time in the studio, it's probably time to think about getting out!...

The Isolation Coat - It's an Acrylic Thing, You...

Mona Lisa

If the phrase "isolation coat" sounds like something they slap on you when you have spent too much time in the studio, it's probably time to think about getting out!...

10 Unique Benefits of Live Art Workshops

10 Unique Benefits of Live Art Workshops

Mona Lisa

Taking the first step can be the hardest thing to do. Most people are curious about taking an art workshop. We ponder it over and over in our heads and...

10 Unique Benefits of Live Art Workshops

Mona Lisa

Taking the first step can be the hardest thing to do. Most people are curious about taking an art workshop. We ponder it over and over in our heads and...

Faux, You Want to Learn Something New?

Faux, You Want to Learn Something New?

Mona Lisa

There is an old saying, "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he may feed himself and others forever."...

Faux, You Want to Learn Something New?

Mona Lisa

There is an old saying, "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he may feed himself and others forever."...

Negative Painting with Watercolor DVD with Brenda Swenson

Negative Painting with Watercolor DVD with Bren...

Mona Lisa

As much as we would want to, not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to afford a week off from work, a week away from your family, or even...

Negative Painting with Watercolor DVD with Bren...

Mona Lisa

As much as we would want to, not everyone is fortunate enough to be able to afford a week off from work, a week away from your family, or even...

Eggciting, Eggcellent and Inky Easter Eggs!

Eggciting, Eggcellent and Inky Easter Eggs!

Mona Lisa

The Spring and Easter season is always a great time to get crafty and dyeing Easter eggs is just the way to get started! Egg dyeing has been a tradition...

Eggciting, Eggcellent and Inky Easter Eggs!

Mona Lisa

The Spring and Easter season is always a great time to get crafty and dyeing Easter eggs is just the way to get started! Egg dyeing has been a tradition...

A Spring Art Fling! Kanuga Watermedia Workshops

A Spring Art Fling! Kanuga Watermedia Workshops

Mona Lisa

Spring is in the air, but a visit to the NC mountains this time of year can be a bit unpredictable. However, there are those who travel from afar to...

A Spring Art Fling! Kanuga Watermedia Workshops

Mona Lisa

Spring is in the air, but a visit to the NC mountains this time of year can be a bit unpredictable. However, there are those who travel from afar to...

Preserving Life Through Creative Journaling

Preserving Life Through Creative Journaling

Mona Lisa

Getting a fresh start in the New Year, allows you to begin again and gives you yet another chance to collect and preserve moments of your life. January is a...

Preserving Life Through Creative Journaling

Mona Lisa

Getting a fresh start in the New Year, allows you to begin again and gives you yet another chance to collect and preserve moments of your life. January is a...

I Am an Alcohol Ink Alkie!

I Am an Alcohol Ink Alkie!

Mona Lisa

Cathy Taylor demos alcohol inks at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff. She painted these beautiful images using alcohol inks on a non - absorbent surface called Yupo.

I Am an Alcohol Ink Alkie!

Mona Lisa

Cathy Taylor demos alcohol inks at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff. She painted these beautiful images using alcohol inks on a non - absorbent surface called Yupo.

Reconnect With Your Art Passion

Reconnect With Your Art Passion

Mona Lisa

If you paint long enough, we all get to the place where we kinda lose the flow of our art. We paint, but it seems we might not be as excited about...

Reconnect With Your Art Passion

Mona Lisa

If you paint long enough, we all get to the place where we kinda lose the flow of our art. We paint, but it seems we might not be as excited about...

When Life Gives You Mud... Make Mud Puddles!

When Life Gives You Mud... Make Mud Puddles!

Mona Lisa

With the many inches of the rain we have had in the North Carolina mountains this year, something we have not been a stranger to is mud puddles. I have...

When Life Gives You Mud... Make Mud Puddles!

Mona Lisa

With the many inches of the rain we have had in the North Carolina mountains this year, something we have not been a stranger to is mud puddles. I have...

Colored Pencils: Time to Take Them Seriously

Colored Pencils: Time to Take Them Seriously

Mona Lisa

Seriously? Colored pencils? I remember in grade school, one of my favorite things to draw with was colored pencils. I would spend hours and hours creating with the ones that came...

Colored Pencils: Time to Take Them Seriously

Mona Lisa

Seriously? Colored pencils? I remember in grade school, one of my favorite things to draw with was colored pencils. I would spend hours and hours creating with the ones that came...

Gerald Brommer: Hardcore Construction Worker at HeArt

Gerald Brommer: Hardcore Construction Worker at...

Mona Lisa

When we think of basic construction, the first thing that comes to mind is Building Construction; high rises, shopping malls, rural housing developments and big burly guys with hard hats...

Gerald Brommer: Hardcore Construction Worker at...

Mona Lisa

When we think of basic construction, the first thing that comes to mind is Building Construction; high rises, shopping malls, rural housing developments and big burly guys with hard hats...