I’d like to write a collumn for parents of artists. Here’s an article I wrote that I’d like to see in a newspaper or magazine. Let me know what you think. I’ve updated this based on some input.
Crazy Brains.
by Dennas Davis
So, your child runs into the room holding a big wad of toilet paper with [...]
Here’s a painting of one of my favorite things. We got this chair in Florida years ago. Actually we have two of them. They are made out of deadhead Cypress wood salvaged from the swamp, and you can’t really find much of this wood any more. The live trees are protected. (a very good thing). [...]
Here’s my latest. The colors are quite vivid, all done as glazes, which catch the light.
18 x 24 inches. Acrylic and pencil on deep edge canvas.
#280/ Now $140
Have you ever wondered why there are two hot primaries and only one cold, but there are two cold secondaries and only one hot. Weirdness! Well read on for enlightenment on these and other color [...]
Think about combining the Macbook AIR with a TV remote and digital ezine/book reader and the touch computers you see used in the movies, and you will be close to this [...]
India ink. Such a tiny little bottle, but so much [...]
A student asked yesterday which of these programs was best for doing color on the computer. It’s not an easy answer, but my short version was, “…depends”.
Both are somewhat difficult to learn and both are expensive. Although Photoshop (PS) has a light version that is far more affordable than the full professional version. Note that [...]
Here is a good example of me getting bored and doing something really different. I had a lot of fun with this, using watercolor, acrylics, colored pencils and oil pastel together on a watercolor panel (not paper, but a special board with a clay coating to simulate paper). If you try really, really hard to [...]
There are no mistakes in art. You cannot fail. You cannot waste your time or effort. I will go so far as to say that if you are not making art that is bound for the trashcan, then you are not a real [...]
This is a thick painting, unlike a lot of what I’ve been doing. I kept getting more and more paint on the canvas. Then I went back the next day and added a ton more. Instead of working within a certain style, I tend to do whatever the painting seems to need.
16 x 20 inches. [...]