Today’s color challenge is to mix the reds for a hot red chili pepper. This one is pretty easy if you begin by using the pigment opposites method to darken and dull colors for shadows.

Introduction I first titled this article “Learners vs. Keepers” and expected to write about how doing artwork is always about learning, even if you don’t like what you end up with. But when I started writing, I wandered over into a rabbit trail. Sometimes that’s a...

If you’ve ever put artwork on paper or canvas, you are adding creativity to the universe. Whether you like it or not.

Dennas explains how making a nice-looking piece of art is not always the best goal when training art students. Using one of our lessons, he demonstrates how it engages students and prepares them for a lifetime of creating, instead of forgetting how they did that one work in class.