Category: Minilessons

  Here’s a new mini lesson to help you with your composition. Hope you enjoy the video! https://youtu.be/q0KXeyu_YOo With Warmest Regards,Marla

Watch this video on composition. Learn the basics and apply it to your work. https://youtu.be/IHqixJp06RM With Warmest Regards,Marla

I’m feeling a bit greedy this morning getting set for a road trip to Albuqurque. After my workshop in Italy with a quick stop in Paris beforehand, I have enough inspiration and material to keep me painting for years to

Anybody ever heard of him?? Well, he’s done a few good things; Edward Scissors Hands, Chocolat, Don Juan DeMarco, Pirates of the Caribbean, Alice in Wonderland just to name a few of his credits. For me what sets his work apart

I used to think giving pieces a title was a waste of time and pretty excruciating at that. I’ve since come around. Now it’s an important part of finishing a piece. It gives a piece more presence and sometimes more

I’ve been playing around with abstraction. What is that really? When I paint, I am starting from somewhere and rarely wind up with something that is fully faithful to the original reference point. Even if I do, it’s an abstraction

We’re all going to erase pastel at one time or another. You might not do it too often but there are going to be times when you need to. There are some tools that we can use to do it

Recently, I had someone say, “My issue seems to be “Seeing A Vision” for beginning a painting. Not so much about composition or design or execution or technique. But a plan… an early vision of what the possibilities for even

Are you interested in taking a landscape in an abstract direction? I have a student who really admires the simplicity and focus on shapes and color she sees in the work of painters like Wolf Kahn and Peter Wileman. But

It doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, but skyholes are important when it comes to explaining where the elements of your painting are sitting in space. When we are composing elements in a picture, we are really making