Joy's Blog

I'm very happy to introduce you to a new Gallery that I'm showing with - Art Avenue of Florida.  They have a wonderful selection of art that ranges from traditional and contemporary or you can visit their onsite museum that hosts works by Salvadore Dali, Pablo Picasso, Natasha Turovsky, Mariela Moode,  Leroy Neiman, Dale Chihuly, and Michael Beauchemin. I am honored to be a part of this.

It is really important that we pay attention to color harmonies in our painting.  Albert Munsell has given us a tool to do that called the Munsell Color Wheel.

The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions:  hue, value (lightness), and color purity.  It was created by Professor Albert H Munsell in the first decade of the 20th century ...

Leaves can make or break your botanical paintings.

When you’ve gone to all that trouble with getting your flower to look beautiful, you don’t want to let it down with lame looking leaves.

Look closely at the color and learn to embrace painting with the color green ...

Selecting a palette of colors often means limiting the choices, making studies and experimenting along the way. One of the keys to being successful as a beginner watercolor artist is to choose a workable set of colors.

Delve into what your palette can be and then start experimenting. Success is a guarantee — because your success is about experimenting and having fun ...

Hello and welcome to my art blog and my very first post!  Since this is the first post, let me introduce myself.  A mentor of mine, Rose Edin, said “There is no such thing as bad art or good art. There is only art you like and art you don't like”.  I agree.  So What IS Art ?