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

DIY Artistic Christmas Card Ideas

DIY Artistic Christmas Card Ideas

Mona Lisa

I love this time of year and the feelings it captures, and I especially love pulling out all of my favorite greeting card supplies to get festive, creative Christmas card...

DIY Artistic Christmas Card Ideas

Mona Lisa

I love this time of year and the feelings it captures, and I especially love pulling out all of my favorite greeting card supplies to get festive, creative Christmas card...

Group Art Ideas to Inspire and Challenge

Group Art Ideas to Inspire and Challenge

Carlee Hudson

Sometimes at Cheap Joe's, we love tackling unique group art ideas. We also understand that coming up with those group art ideas can be challenging whether you are an art...

Group Art Ideas to Inspire and Challenge

Carlee Hudson

Sometimes at Cheap Joe's, we love tackling unique group art ideas. We also understand that coming up with those group art ideas can be challenging whether you are an art...

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Getting Started With Watercolors: The Basics

Mona Lisa

Have you ever found yourself fascinated with watercolors' delicate and luminous nature? There's beautiful transparency and freshness to it that isn't as easily duplicated through mediums such as oil or...

Getting Started With Watercolors: The Basics

Mona Lisa

Have you ever found yourself fascinated with watercolors' delicate and luminous nature? There's beautiful transparency and freshness to it that isn't as easily duplicated through mediums such as oil or...

Oil Painting Tips for Those New to Oils

Oil Painting Tips for Those New to Oils

Carlee Hudson

Hello Artists, beginners and experts alike!   This week, our blog post is inspired by a request from Tanya M. Nevin of Van Gough's Ear Paint Studio (check out her...

Oil Painting Tips for Those New to Oils

Carlee Hudson

Hello Artists, beginners and experts alike!   This week, our blog post is inspired by a request from Tanya M. Nevin of Van Gough's Ear Paint Studio (check out her...

Image of 4 Winsor & Newton Quinacridone Watercolor Tubes on a watercolor wash

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Quinacridone...

CJAS Staff

Enjoy this blog post highlighting the endless color characteristics and versatility of Winsor & Newton Quinacridone Colors

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Quinacridone...

CJAS Staff

Enjoy this blog post highlighting the endless color characteristics and versatility of Winsor & Newton Quinacridone Colors

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues

CJAS Staff

Enjoy this blog post highlighting the characteristics and versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues. Winsor & Newton offers the purest pigments which inspire artists to create in limitless ways.

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues

CJAS Staff

Enjoy this blog post highlighting the characteristics and versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues. Winsor & Newton offers the purest pigments which inspire artists to create in limitless ways.

Mark Mehaffey on \Personal Abstraction\""

Mark Mehaffey on \Personal Abstraction\""

Terry Henry

Mark Mehaffey was featured in the New Palette Magazine issue #61 which is now out of print. In this reprint, Mark shares with us his process in creating abstract shapes.

Mark Mehaffey on \Personal Abstraction\""

Terry Henry

Mark Mehaffey was featured in the New Palette Magazine issue #61 which is now out of print. In this reprint, Mark shares with us his process in creating abstract shapes.

Watercolor Wet into Wet Demystified - Wes Waugh

Watercolor Wet into Wet Demystified - Wes Waugh

Terry Henry

In this offering, Wes shows us the difference between a dry approach to painting versus the "wetness" technique in creating a landscape. Wes is one of our local (Boone, NC)...

Watercolor Wet into Wet Demystified - Wes Waugh

Terry Henry

In this offering, Wes shows us the difference between a dry approach to painting versus the "wetness" technique in creating a landscape. Wes is one of our local (Boone, NC)...

Master the Mist Video Still

David R. Smith Watercolor Demonstration: Master...

Leslie Snipes

David created this watercolor demo especially for Cheap Joe's as a way to share some painting skills that you can master while you stay home and make art. You'll learn...

David R. Smith Watercolor Demonstration: Master...

Leslie Snipes

David created this watercolor demo especially for Cheap Joe's as a way to share some painting skills that you can master while you stay home and make art. You'll learn...

What Is An Abstract Painting Anyway? by Skip Lawrence

What Is An Abstract Painting Anyway? by Skip La...

Terry Henry

Skip Lawrence is another one of my "favorite" artists. He has been teaching at Cheap Joe's forever and after interviewing him in 2017, I asked him to send me something...

What Is An Abstract Painting Anyway? by Skip La...

Terry Henry

Skip Lawrence is another one of my "favorite" artists. He has been teaching at Cheap Joe's forever and after interviewing him in 2017, I asked him to send me something...

An Update on Jim Bailey's Art Studio and New Painting Innovations!

An Update on Jim Bailey's Art Studio and New Pa...

Terry Henry

First, I want to thank you for including my art studio in the New Palette Issue #61.  Since it has been over a year I thought it was timely to...

An Update on Jim Bailey's Art Studio and New Pa...

Terry Henry

First, I want to thank you for including my art studio in the New Palette Issue #61.  Since it has been over a year I thought it was timely to...

15 Minutes of Painting

15 Minutes of Painting

Brian Dubberly

“I want to get back into painting, but I just don’t have the time.” I hear it every day. “Maybe that’s because you’re in the art world,” you might say....

15 Minutes of Painting

Brian Dubberly

“I want to get back into painting, but I just don’t have the time.” I hear it every day. “Maybe that’s because you’re in the art world,” you might say....