HeyJaredThe Artsharps
Art doesn't belong in the galleries, it belongs with the people.
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Butter, When I Want Meringue (opens the original)
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I used to think of myself as a watercolor painter until I went to school and switched to oils. I now think of myself primarily as an oil painter. However, because of a new baby in the house, I have not painted with oils in nearly two months.I recently got out some old, brand-new gouache paint. My thinking was I could make it work more like oils; it’s thicker and opaque. As I worked on small pieces I found the going smooth. As I tried the larger piece below, I realized what works for a small piec
A Self-Awareness Thought (opens the original)
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These days, because of our two small children, I am painting at night. That’s because I’m taking care of babies during the day.Painting at 3 AM, when I am barely awake, causes some different thinking.When I wake up at random hours of the night and decide to paint, based on how asleep I think Little Fawn is in her bed, I have different levels of being awake. Some nights I am more like, I’ve got to get up to paint, and I walk as if I were going to use the bathroom (meaning I am trying not to becom
Red Is Not Red (opens the original)
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Blue Slate turkeys are gray, not blue. Blueberries are pretty much purple. Neither red cabbage nor red onions are red.We have become accustomed to red being a fire-engine red. A true red is closer to an orange. Bear in mind that any computer screen or printer is going to alter tones.<so
Two Ways To Make It in the Art World, for Me (opens the original)
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Sometimes I forget to sign my work before I photograph it for social media postings. After I sign the piece, I usually don’t worry enough to go back and retake the photo.I tend to think many artists would recoil at the idea that somebody stole their work.I’m not saying that if someone stole my work and made millions off it, I would be okay. (But realistically, hundreds of thousands is the best they might do, lol.)My thinking stems from the idea that “We all sit on the shoulders of giants.”<a cla
Fix It (opens the original)
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A few years ago, I entered a painting show/contest. I did not win. I haven’t won a contest since a county fair long ago, when I won all of the first-place awards in multiple categories, and I decided it was time to move on. To be fair, usually I don’t enter any contests, so I can’t win any, lol. But in this one contest that I entered a few years ago, after the contest winners had been announced, several artists asked the judge what he looked for in a painting.I assumed he would answer, “abstract
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