For this home project, I want to explore different techniques I can use with watercolor to highlight its natural flow and to play with...

Mary Whyte is an American watercolor artist specializing in portraiture. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1953, and knew from a young...

Hello! Another week of working on my process critique project has passed, and I'm still in what Samantha calls the "crisis phase". I had...

Earlier this week, I was able to listen to artist Oura Sananikone talk about his work during his lunchtime lecture. I loved learning...

I'm working on my first ever process critique project right now! I'm now about halfway through my allotted class time to work, but still...

Amy Ross is a painter and illustrater based in Boston, Massachusetts. I first saw her name on the New American Paintings website, and was...

I recently finished working on my third in-class project for this year, in which I painted a childhood photo of my brother's best friend...

For my first semester home project, I decided that I wanted to paint an image of someone (who probably looks a little like me) sleeping...

This week I made good progress on my first in-class painting of the year. My goals are to add lots of framing to my piece and continue...

Above are some of the figure drawings I did during the two weeks we spent learning from Tommy Van Auken and drawing from live models. I...

This week I made some more progress on my breakfast still life. I've been doing a lot of glazing, so the colors have gotten richer and...

This week, I started painting a new watercolor piece. To address my goals of adding light source and taking my own pictures, I decided to...

When looking for another art-related career to research, I decided that I wanted to look into a job I didn't know much about, so I chose...

Earlier this week, we took a mini field trip to see the current exhibition of art pieces from Henrico High School's CFA, and walk around...

When looking for another artist to research, I decided to look on the New American Paintings site again to look into one of their...

In class, I'm currently working on another large watercolor painting based on the succulents in my grandparents' garden. This time...

While browsing through the New American Painters website, I came across the featured artist John Dilg, a painter from the Midwest. I love...

I decided to make a painting to add to my body of work for this project. I'm planning to make a series of paintings of my childhood home...

On Monday, we went to see the Scholastic Art Awards show at the Visual Arts Center. I was able to find inspiration in many of the pieces...

Right now, we're wrapping up our 4th in-class project of the year. I still have a lot to finish over the weekend, but so far I'm really...