Joy's Blog

My New Home away from the Studio ...

My New Home away from the Studio ...

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.

How to Paint Leaves

Painting leaves demonstration or tutorial

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 ...

15 Amazing Finalists From Smithsonian’s 15th Annual Photo Contest

15 Amazing Finalists From Smithsonian’s 15th Annual Photo Contest
Every year, the Smithsonian Annual Photo Contest wows us with incredible images from around the world. For its 15th year, the competition received 48,000 submissions from photographers in 155 countries and territories in six categories, including Natural World, The American Experience, Travel, People, Altered Images, and Mobile ...

Welcome to my 1st Blog Post

Welcome to my 1st Blog Post

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 ?