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Would you like your most puzzling art questions answered?
First - about this image. It is a product of my most recent Skillshare classes - one on painting tiny two inch watercolors, and the other about how to clean up your real world art in Procreate so you can use it for print. For Skillshare members, you can find the classes here:
Tiny Watercolor Paintings for Summer Fun
and here:
For non- members, both classes will be coming to my website as soon as I can reduce the videos. You can also get a free trial membership to Skillshare when you use these links.
But this post is about something else. . .
In 3 years, I will celebrate my 50th Anniversary as a professional artist - professional meaning making art to make a living - meaning I have done “art” in many different ways to make that living.
I have taught in every kind of venue, including real schools because I am a trained teacher as well as a “do it so I teach it” one, I have owned a San Francisco graphic design firm, done commercial photography, been a street artist in SF and done many many art shows, worked in art supply stores and been an art supply manufacturer. Some of this overlapped my 30 years as a gallery owner in Santa Fe, and my 20 years online teaching in the art spaces.
Long story short (too late, I know), I have gathered a lot of info about art and supplies and processes and selling it and buying it, and thinking it and living it.
And I want this newsletter to be really useful to creative people as well as entertaining.
So, if I can talk you all into contributing questions, I would like to answer them here if I can. If I don’t know an answer, I may know where to find it. This would be fun and we would all learn a lot. Maybe we could even get conversations going.
Questions can be about anything to do with art. What is something you have wanted to know about?. What problems have you been unable to solve?
If you submit a question, your name goes into a bowl for drawings I plan to have to for random arty prizes. So, you get an answer and a chance to win something.
Submit your questions any way you want - in Comments to these newsletters, in our Chat Room, or even by email to me at this address.
instructor@jessicawesolek.com
If you think this sounds interesting, just remember that I can’t do it without YOU (Channel that Uncle Sam poster)
FAQS & FACTS . . .
I have been pondering an area for growth. I like plein air painting and also painting from reference photos I take when I camp and travel. But...
What I have noticed about myself is that I get caught up in what I see and have trouble simplifying ( and limiting) the picture. I totally get it when I do a class where someone has already made the decisions . I recognize it too when I look at other people's interpretation of a scene but boy does it trip me up when I'm left to my own devices. This is especially true for me in landscape paintings. It's not as quite as hard with buildings.
Anybody else have this issue?
By the way Jessica I have to say this is an amazing offer and I'm excited to see where this thread takes us. Thank you
This post came right on time! Last night, I was reflecting on the fact that many things are competing for my time. Some things can’t really change much: family, household chores. In the last 2 years, I have started to do crochet, creating hats and blankets and dolls. It has taken over a lot of my free time to the detriment of drawing. But I miss drawing! So how do I manage my hobbies so they don’t compete with each other for my time and attention? How do I do it all?