Monday in Video Tutorials – In tomorrow’s video clip, watercolor artist Jan Kunz will demonstrate how to accurately measure and...
Year: 2010
Seeing how this week marks the 4th anniversary of EmptyEasel.com, I’ve decided to take the week off, kick back, and relax in the sunshine - provided I can still find some this late in the year. :)
Whenever I do a show in a city farther than about 3 hours away I usually just stay one more night in a hotel. It’s not that I love hotels - William Shatner books me in some really creepy places at times
Phyllis Dobbs, a freelance illustrator and artist, started her professional design career designing cross-stitch patterns. Over the years her work has been featured on product lines and in kits, books, and magazines
Kirby Jones has been a practicing multidisciplinary professional artist for over 19 years. He is a self-proclaimed designer, maker and photographer who specializes in contemporary furniture, large format photographs
Artists love black. Love, love, love it. It has class. It engages. It draws you in. But let me tell you, there’s one place where black and all that it stands for will work completely against you and your art
Monday I won’t be published a new article on EmptyEasel - instead, I’ll be finishing up a small project at Foliotwist, my other website for artists. Head on over there in a few days if you’re curious to see what’s new
As an artist, my head often gets to swimming with too many ideas. So I decided to maintain a book to keep my thoughts, sketches and experiments in order. Over time, this grew into four distinct books
It’s important to write blog posts ahead of time and schedule them for future posting if you know your schedule won’t permit you to post on a regular basis. Here are the three steps necessary for automating your blog posts
Having grown up in inner city Dublin, Ireland, John O'Reilly has always had a special relationship with the urban landscape. Today he creates oil paintings of alluring urban locations that most people would consider commonplace
Today I've taken three brands of watercolour pencils/sticks (Derwent Aquatone, Derwent Inktense, and Neocolor II) and compared them with and without water on rough watercolour paper
When painting fur, it’s important to think in terms of layers. Take a look at this demonstration by Susan Bourdet - as you’ll see, she adds at least three layers of paint to get the desired texture