What is Creativity?

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams 

If you don't know who Scott Adam is I am sure you are familiar with his work.He is  an American cartoonist, creator of the Dilbert comic strip

I used to think Dilbert was living my life that was in the way back machine and before I decided to move my life to next level and work at my art full time.

Snacks in my office/studio you bet and coffee all the time. All nigher yep and I love them. So no more Dilbert life he's on his own and the studio cats and I are laughing ourselves fuzzy with happiness.

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quotes to make you think

"Go not to the object; let the object come to you," (Henry David


 Thoreau) or "There is no art without contemplation," 


I am always thinking and reading. I listen to audio books while  

paint to get just a little more out of my day. There is never 

enough time to do all. I find ways so  that I can stretch my 

day where I can.

I let my watercolors dry between glaze coats while I'm on 

the computer.

What do you do to add just a little more value to your day?To 

make the object come to you?


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The Art Sprit

I am always amazed when I wake up in the morning and go to daily painters web site or daily paint works on how many artist had the same idea of what to paint that day but in how differently each handle their idea. I think there are many ways to paint an orange as there are oranges and artist combined.

So do not paint what you have seen and think should be your inspiration but be yourself.

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Oh, Bad Delilah

The simple fact is that people will become loyal, trusting potential buyers of you and your work when they know they are dealing with a human, especially one with flaws like them.

When you show more of who you are, you are morphing into the product. The product is not just your work and your skills. You are the full package. And that is what people invest in – their time and their money.

I know this but I don't share. I need to do more of this; if you are an artist like me you also need to do this. So today I am making a change a commitment to share more. To show more of the process and the frustration of being a one woman show. The creator,the marketer ,the book keeper,and the self motivator. 

Have a bright and sunny day and paddle your way into a great year of painting

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Art is Imagination at its best

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." (Albert Einstein)


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Life is short

"Ars longa, vita brevis" "Art is long, life is short." (Hippocrates)



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Fly with your Dream

Tony Anony - From the Dreams category:
We beautiful creatures born in mystery / Fly best on wings of dreams. (Tony Anony)



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Demo of Beach Swimmer

The Swimmer

About This Painting:

The Swimmer
10x8 inch on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)

Price: $200 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $200 USD plus $12 USD s/h

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Fun Products for the Arts

Product of the Month Hey watercolor painters, did you know that you can permanently fix your watercolor paintings?


This may not be overly important if you frame them under glass, but if you are like me you may want to mount them on a canvas or a wood panel. If you need a good fixative that is non-aerosal and made with all natural ingredients, try SpectraFix. 

I use it in a pump bottle with a couple of light coats on the painting. No odor, no mess - it just works. You can use it on watercolor paintings, pastel, graphite, charcoal, colored pencils or nearly anything else. Give it a try and see how you like it. Pump bottle of Spectra-Fix

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Painting Demo

10 x 8 inch

oil painting

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Humor for the New Year

The Four Stages of life: 

 1.'You believe in Santa Claus

2. You don't believe in Santa Claus

3.You are Santa Claus

4.You look like Santa Claus'

Santa Chicken

About This Painting:
Santa Chicken
12x9 watercolor on 140 lb cold pressed watercolor paper.

Media: watercolor
Size: 9 in X 12 in (22.9 cm X 30.5 cm)
Price: $100 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $100 USD plus $10 USD s/h
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Painting Demo of Peaches

Peaches and Crab Apples

About This Painting:

Peaches and Crab Apples
8x10 oil painting on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Panting Demo of an Orange Still life in Oils

Today I am doing a painting demo of an Orange. The still life is simple and the painting has lots of think paint and great warm colors.

Orange Still Life No. 6

About This Painting:

Orange Still Life No.6
8x10 inch oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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Apples and Grapes painting Dmeo

Today I have a painitng demo of apples and Grapes for you. I hope you enjoy it.

Apples and Grapes still life

About This Painting:

Apples and Grapes
Oil painting on canvas panel 8x10

Media: oil painitng

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

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The Fear of Making It.

“The paralysis that comes from the fear of making a mistake is often the mistake…” 
 - Jason Hirschorn,
As they say, just do it. I always tell myself if I paint it they will come. It's my field of dreams.



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Oil Painting demo Landscape with Sunflowers

Today I am painting a field of sunflowers. In this quick over view you will see how I work from back ground to foreground. I hope you enjoy this video.
The painting is done in oils on an 8x10 canvas panel.

About This Painting:

Sunflower Field
8 x 10 oil painting on panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

How to Purchase:

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Painting demo

Today's painting demo is of a mountain landscape with flowers blooming in the spring.

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If You've never failed you have never lived

With the Holidays coming up  like a fright train coming around the bend and I know you have so much to do just like me, it can be so over whelming. You feel like everyone else does it better, gets more done, and just seems to win when you fail.




Fell better now? I know I do.


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Drawing the head demo

If your like me and drawing or painting the head is difficult here is a quick tutorial on how to draw the head. I can always draw it when the person is looking at mme but how do you do it when they are turned and you only see part of one of the yes ? How do you get that head tilt right?

I've been working on a painting for days try to get the shadows and tilt of the head just right. So I know how difficult it can be.

I hope this helps.

All Work ©2006-2014 Art by Delilah

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Creating art is not a bus ride to easy street.

Creating art is not a bus ride to "easy street".


What's your BIG idea? What challenges and excites you? What takes your breath away, keeps you up at night, makes you smile all day long?

Sometimes it's "distant and far away," but it's in there! Find it, dust it off, honor it. Pursue it! People will join you and things will unfold in amazing ways. Dream bigger dreams and take action. It's what makes life worth the living!

But here’s the thing: starting a business is always a lot harder than you think. More important is that you must think of your art as a business.You just need to know that it is, so that when you do go through harder moments, you can tell yourself that that is to be expected, and so you drive through it.

Successful creatives push through the pain because they know it is ‘supposed’ to be hard work. Then the rewards really do come.


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Painting Demo Venice

Today I take my paint brushes to Venice to paint the Gondolas on the canal. Bring your paints and come along with me.

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Painting Demo, Dogwood flowers

Dogwood Flowers

About This Painting:

Dogwood flowers
8x10 oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $200 USD

How to Purchase:

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The Artist Mind those that expect receive

The artistic mind, flowing properly, sees the world differently. Call it what you will--a Celestial moment, synchronicity, serendipity. There's a higher harmonic. It's got something to do with receptiveness and alertness. Those who expect, receive. We can leave it to the gods where it comes from. The important thing is to give in to it--allow this dream mind to run.

To allow for creative flow give thought to your current processes and habits. Study your workstation for areas of awkwardness and limit them. See that things are handy.

Cut back on time-wasters -- the procedural ones and the two-footed kind. Do your work in a logical and yet creative order.

Artists are often dreaming, wondering, wandering and idling in the fanciful department. It seems that artistic types can actually "live in" a world of their own creation, perhaps preferring it to the real world, their work being an extension of it.

When I feel an artistic moment coming on,I surrendering to the need to make something and I don't need time wasters getting in the way of my creative flow.

Success as an artist means having freedom. Freedom to follow your nose. You need freedom in order to create, and you need creativity in order to pay the price for your freedom.

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Does the IRS think you are an artist

Does the IRS consider you an artist?
If you say you are an artist, but you make little money from selling your art, can your work be considered a profession in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service?Read more on this

In this rough environment it is hard to make a living as an artist. As artist it is very important to write your yearly business plan and keep proper documents of shows and expenses. Document shows applied for and not accepted, accepted shows, update you resume with awards received , keep your website current, and send out monthly news letters.

This is all part of the business of being an artist. I know not the part we like but the must do list of things to start each day with.





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Dream a little dream

Artists are often dreaming, wondering, wandering and idling in the fanciful department. It seems that artistic types can actually "live in" a world of their own creation, perhaps preferring it to the real world, their work being an extension of it.

I know I am a dreamer a believer in all things are possible.Live your dreams.Dream a little dream live a big one.


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Candy Corn Painting Demo

Candy Corn

About This Painting:

Candy Corn
oil painting on canvas panel 7x5

Media: oil painting

Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)

Price: $50 USD

How to Purchase:

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A Busy Sept for a Daily Painter

September was a busy month with Gallery Shows and events, but I still managed to paint every day.I have been working larger lately. I still do the small daily paintings but not as many of the 5x7 . I have been doing more 8x10 because I am also a Plein Air painter and I use a cigar box easel in the field. Here are a few of the paintings I did in Sept 2014.


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Painting Demo Snow Angels

Snow Angels

About This Painting:

Snow Angels
8x10x3/4 oil painting on stretched gallery wrapped canvas with painted sides

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 8 in (25.4 cm X 20.3 cm)

Price: $200 USD

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Painting Demo of a Lemon, daily painter

The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato 

Lemon still life 1.00 Auction

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh

About This Painting:

A Lemon
5x7 oil painting

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

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Painting Demo of a Strawberry

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” - Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), Author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University

Raspberries and Strawberry

    About This Painting:

"After the first brush stroke, the canvas assumes a life of its own; at this point you become both governor and spectator to your own event." (Anonymous quote from our Resource of Art Quotations, provided by Derek Franklin, the reigning "King of Quotes.")

Raspberries and Strawberry
5x7 oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

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Olive Painting Demo

I broke this demo up into two parts to be able to show more detail of how I work.


Part two of the Olives

Olive Still Life

About This Painting:

Olive Still Life
10x8 oil painting on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)

Price: $200 USD

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Passion , Obsession,Compelling Addiction

Art has the power to make you think, elevate your emotions, and transport you through time and space.

The word passion comes from the Latin patior, meaning to suffer or to endure. These days, losing its uncomfortable roots, passion is a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion toward a subject, idea, person or object.

Here's how to get it: Revisit and repossess your core dreams and fantasies. Consider your dreams to be private, unique and sacred.Indulge them.

 Get help from and watch the actions of the already passionate those possessed like me. Indulge, honour and live in your own imagination. Don't talk about it, do it.
“Big, deep planning is a glamorous way of procrastinating.”

Song of the Poppies

About This Painting:

Song of the Poppies
30x40x1.5
oil painting on stretched gallery wrapped canvas
(no international shipping)

Media: oil painting

Size: 40 in X 30 in (101.6 cm X 76.2 cm)

Price: $1000 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $1000 USD plus $50 USD s/h

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Quality is a habit.

"Art should take what is complex and render it simply,
Every painting problem comes down to four visual elements: shape, value, color and edges."

Quality is not an act, it is a habit." (Aristotle)

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Sept News Letter,Bye-bye summer, hello fall!

Date: Sept 1, 2014

News From the Studio 

With a Passion for Painting

Art by Delilah

With a Passion for Painting

Delilah is an award winning artist who paints fresh colorful paintings with bold brush strokes . She paints full time both in her studio and Plein Air. 

What I've Been up to:
Bye-bye summer, hello fall! September is here. Wow where did the summer go.I participated in several Plein Air paint outs and shows this summer painting the Michigan Landscape. I meant some new artist friends and collector. I am looking forward to fall colors and the glory of the rich colors.

The above Paintings can be seen at the Our Town Art Show
The Community House 380 South Bates Birmingham, Michigan 48009
October 9, 2014 - Saturday, October 11, 2014

For information please click here.

News From the Studio
What New on the Easel 
I will be showing at the Crooked Tree Art Center

GREAT LAKES PLEIN AIR PAINTERS ASSOCIATION (GLPAPA)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014 – NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Dates:  September 19 – November 15, 2014
Location: Edith Gilbert Gallery

This juried exhibition of work from the Great Lakes Plein Air Painters Association will highlight plein air painters working around the Great Lakes area. This fine plein air painting organization is an organization with a focus on painting from life outdoors. 

These paintings will be at the show.

These painting will be on display at the Crooked Tree Art Gallery Show. Contact the Gallery for more information.

Last but not least is the show at ArtPrize.

Fuzzy Buzzy Bees

This painting will be shown at the B.O.B. during ArtPrize 2014.

Sept 24-Oct 12
At the B.O.B
in downtown Grand Rapids MI

Tips for Artist:

Present your small canvas paintings in style without buying frames. Paint the edges and display them on small replica easels of the larger style ones.If you are a daily painter like I am this is a great way to display those little gems.

Contact Information:
Art by Delilah
delilah@artbydelilah.com
Painting of the day
Face Book



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Painting Demo of Sunflowers

Can of Sunflowers $1.00 Auction

About This Painting: I have been offering one of my daily painting each week at auction with bidding starting at $1.00. This painting is now available at auction. Bidding starts at $1.00. Happy bidding.

Can of Sunflowers
7x5 oil painting on canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)

Price: $1 USD

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Art Marketing how do you get your work in front of buyers

Marketing art can be a huge challenge.

How do you get your art in front of people who will not only love it, but want to buy it as well? Should you invest in magazine ads? Participate in art festivals? Show your work in a local gallery? All valid tactics you should be pursuing, but you may be overlooking your best marketing opportunity: Selling to collectors who have purchased your work in the past.

My Daily Painting July and Aug work.


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Do you wonder how some artist get so lucky

I've found that... “I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”

Yep that is so right. Everyone asks me how can I paint everyday.They work everyday and no one ask them that question. If you are an artist you show up and you paint. Not every one is a winner but even my bad ones are so much better then they used to be. Want more luck? Show up more often.

 - Brian Tracy (1944-), Motivational speaker and author" POST YOUR OPINIONS IN THE COMMENTS" or email me at delilah@artbydelilah.com All work © 2006-2014

Strange Habits of Highly Creative People

According to Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson, eccentric people tend to be more creative because of something called "cognitive dis-inhibition.

Getting up early was a habit and a ”must” of Ernest Hemingway and Marcel Proust, Beethoven was drinking dozens of cups of coffee a day, and Benjamin Franklin had his ritual of ”air-bath” in front of an open window while V.S. Pritchett adored a glass of martini with his lunch. All modern analysis and researches,done on this matter did not lead to a ritual or weird habits that would be common for all those great minds, but they did discover that majority of them had some sort of eccentric habit or rule.

Albert Einstein picked up cigarette butts off the street to get tobacco for his pipe.

"Basically, creative folks have less of a filter on their thoughts and actions, which makes them more likely to do things that don’t follow the norms of behavior.


Francis Bacon, a British artist who painted gruesome and intense portraits, lived the high life. Bottles of wine, beers at the pub, and drinks at private clubs were a daily routine. Interestingly, all the imbibing and hard living helped his creativity.

T.S. Eliot wore green-tinted face powder and lipstick

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No one is going to save you

"No one is coming to save you; no one is going to discover you. Just like any other business, you, and your target market, must be abundantly clear about your unique value proposition." - Ann Rea

I know we all think if a gallery owner would notice us that would be the key to the next level. The key to the next level is knowing where you want to go and developing a path to get there. It's not easy but it is doable.

One you decide where you want to go take that first step in the journey and enjoy the ride.

"Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event." (Robert Genn)

Robert has left us but his words and art live on.





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Quote of the Week

"Creativity takes courage." (Henri Matisse)

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ready to Sail Sailboat painting

Ready to Sail, sailboats

About This Painting:

Ready to Sail
24x24x1 1/2
oil painting on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil painting

Size: 24 in X 24 in (61 cm X 61 cm)

Price: $700 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $700 USD plus $20 USD s/h

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The Ann Arbor Michigan Art Fair starts next week July 16-19 2014!

Come and see original paintings at my booth B702 on Thompson Street.

Delilah

With a Passion for Painting

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All Work ©2006-20014 Art by Delilah

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Come and see whats hot in Ann Arbor

For artists and art fair lovers the Ann Arbor Art Fairs equate with the New Year's Day or the first day of school -- it is the event around which the other 361 days of the year turn here in Michigan.

 Dates: July 16-19, Wednesday through Saturday Location: Main Street, South University, Liberty and the University of Michigan Campus Easiest parking: Briarwood mall off of State and I-94, free parking and then take the shuttle to the fairs & some new reserved parking What you'll find: over 1000 juried artists from across the nation in four authorized events

Come and say Hi. I'm on Thomson Street part of the State Street Area booth B702

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Come and visit at the Ann Arbor Art FAir

The Ann Arbor Michigan Art Fair starts next week July 16-19 2014!

Come and see original paintings at my booth B702 on Thompson Street.

Delilah

With a Passion for Painting

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Daily paintings for June 2014

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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Have a Great 4th of Jully

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

About This Painting:

This is a .99 cent auction to celebrate the 4th of July. If you are like Yogi Bear you will have a few of these in your fourth of July picnic basket. Just be careful so those pesky little bears don't get it first. So whether you are off to Jelly Stone Park or the beach pack your PB&J's for a fun fourth of July.

Peanut Butter and Jelly

5x7 oil painting on a canvas panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

Price: $0.99 USD

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The Elements of Design -LINE

The elements of design: LINE
A line Actual or implied creates a boundary ,defines an edge or indicates a direction.


Characteristic of Line are: Width - thick, thin, tapering, uneven Length - long, short, continuous, broken Direction- horizontal, vertical, diagonal, curving, perpendicular, oblique, parallel, radial, zigzag Focus- sharp, blurry, fuzzy, choppy Feeling- sharp, jagged, graceful, smooth

Types of Line:
Outlines- Lines made by the edge of an object or its silhouette.
Contour Lines- Lines that describe the shape of an object and the interior detail. Gesture Lines- Lines that are energetic and catch the movement and gestures of an active figure. Sketch Lines- Lines that capture the appearance of an object or impression of a place.
Calligraphic Lines- Greek word meaning "beautiful writing." Precise, elegant handwriting or lettering done by hand. Also artwork that has flowing lines like an elegant handwriting.
Implied Line- Lines not actually drawn but created by a group of objects seen from a distance. Implied line is the direction an object is pointing to, or the direction a person is looking at. ( I like this one a lot)

An implied line is one that the viewer imagines. Value, Shapes and Color can create lines.

Zigzag lines:
Freedom Cupcake, Fourth of July

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Freedom Cupcake
10x10x1 1/2
oil painting on stretched gallery wrapped canvas

Media: oil painting

Size: 10 in X 10 in (25.4 cm X 25.4 cm)

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Implied Line

Conga Cherries

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Conga Cherries
5x7
oil painting on a museum quality panel ready to frame.

Media: oil painting

Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)

Price: $100 USD

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Light and Shade the Elements of Design

Art by Delilah With a Passion for Painting

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote

Value: Refers to the light and darkness of a tone.

A lot of us use the terms hue, tint, tone and shade when referring to color in art, but did you know each of these terms has a very specific meaning? For a painter, knowing the difference between them all is important when communicating concepts in your painting.

Tones are created when you add both black and white to a hue.
 Value contrast refers to the difference in value between one tone and another, Black and white represent the extreme of in value contrast with the varying shades of gray in the middle.

Adding black to a color will darken it. This is caller a shade. Adding white to the same color will lighten it , this is called a tint.

If you slightly squint your eyes, you will see that at least 2 and possibly 3 values of color make up any object in the natural world. Practice creating entire paintings with no more than 3 values on any object. Paint a few of those and you'll discern a rhythm between areas of 1, 2 and 3 values. It's a fun game.

A Morning Read

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A Morning Read
6x4
oil painting on a museum quality panel

Media: oil painting

Size: 4 in X 6 in (10.2 cm X 15.2 cm)

Price: $50 USD

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The Elements of Design in Painting

Art by Delilah
With a Passion for Painting

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try” – Dr. Seuss



The elements of design are the basic strategies you use in your composition. It doesn't matter what your subject is or style they apply to all paintings.

Elements of Design:
The elements of design are building blocks to develop your painting. The basics are: Value,color,shape,line,and texture. All painters deal with these elements.

When you have finished your painting check the elements. Could the art be improved by push one of these elements more? Develop an exit check list to see if you have used this design elements.

Blossoms and Oranges

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Blossoms and Oranges
16x20x3/4 oil painting on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

Media: oil painting

Size: 20 in X 16 in (50.8 cm X 40.6 cm)

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Art is an Event

"Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event." (Robert Genn)

Robert has left us but his words and art live on.





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Move your painting to the next level

Dissatisfaction is the first step toward moving to a higher level.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.” 

Making quantum leaps in our progress as painters is critically important.
Remaining stagnant is not an option. But quantum leaps don't usually occur on their own. Great painters recognize when they are in a rut and intentionally place themselves in an environment that challenges them and forces them to try new things. ultimately, growth as an artist comes once you break out of your comfort zone to a place you feel free, a little uncomfortable, and suddenly reinvigorated about your work.

 ▢ 1. Know that dissatisfaction is a blessing. Reaching a level of unhappiness with your work is a sure-fire way to be on the lookout for change. Embrace your dissatisfaction.

 ▢ 2. Immerse yourself in the work of great masters. Go to the museums and study their works. Stare. Paint their paintings in your mind from start to finish. Try to figure out how they made every brushstroke. Their breakthroughs will register in your mind and will help you make your own breakthroughs.

 ▢ 3. Paint feverishly. The worst thing you can do is stop. Instead, ramp up your painting time. Stop thinking and start painting intuitively. Stop judging yourself. Just paint, experiment, and challenge yourself.

 ▢ 4. Confuse your brain with multiple mentors. Though others will tell you this is the worst thing you can do, it's the best road to finding your own breakthrough. Following a single mentor is a great road to becoming a clone. Study with different people in an environment where your brain can get constant stimulation with lots of painters at the same time. Even the most experienced painters study other painters in order to stimulate brain activity and increase their knowledge. "

Now turn off the computer and start painting.

Flight of the Bumble Bee

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Paint you mind, expose your ideas

"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity." - Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874-1956), Founder of International Business Machines (IBM)



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