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May 2022, Part 1: How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?

In Making Comics, Lynda Barry asks: how old do you have to be to make a bad drawing? This brilliant question catches on all the snags in our tangled thoughts about good art and who gets to make it. And if we let it, it dissolves them right out. I

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April Q&A

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EDI Live Soon! Reference Photos in here :)

Hi everyone! Here are the reference photos I'll be sketching from in today's live. I'll be mixing my media, trying to use more drawing sticks as we explore ways to simplify a piece and make something satisfying regardless of how much time (or energy,

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Events

EDI Live - This Sat (Apr 23), 12PM PST

Each month, Light Tier members are invited onto a live online painting session where we'll go deeper into the month's practices and ideas, ask questions and get to know each other. If you'd like to join, upgrade here. Hello Light tier friends! Our next

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Materials

DRAWING STICKS: my story of pens, pencils, markers, crayons and pastels

As a kid, I started out making marks with crayons and markers, pens and pencils (we'll just call this group of things drawing sticks for simplicity). My familiarity with the handfeel of these tools made them a really attractive starting point when I revisited mark-making as an adult,

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How to change

My art is changing. I feel both excited and apologetic, shy and inspired.

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April 2022: One thing at a time

One thing that makes art-making a satisfying experience for me is exploring one(ish) thing at a time. When I was just beginning, trying to paint a realistic portrait was not very satisfying because it asked me to attend to a lot things I wasn't skilled at -

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March Q&A

Welcome to our monthly Q&A! Submit your questions and/or requests for in depth posts on Discord or by email any time and I'll round them up here. This month we're talking whether or not to clean your palette, which art supplies to keep

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EDI Live Today! Reference Photos in here :)

Hello Light Tier friends - I'm looking forward to seeing you all in a couple of hours (12PM Pacific). I wanted to send you these two references photos that I may be painting from. You're welcome to paint along!

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Watercolor 2.0

Let's talk water and color. It's magic. We started the conversation back in January with this intro to watercolors, which mostly addresses what watercolor is, some of its intrinsic properties, and the brands and colors of paints that I enjoy the most. Now it's

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Digitizing Art

Hi friends! This is an expanded question that was submitted last month for the Q&A asking how I digitize my art. There are two major goals you might have in wanting to digitize. One would be to accurately represent your art digitally, and keep it as close as

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Making Color 1.0

Making color is hands down one of my favorite parts of playing with art materials. I want to show you how I think about it and offer some ways that you can start to explore mixing satisfying colors. I've found that the best way to begin color mixing

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EDI Live - Sat Mar 26, 12PM PST

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March 2022: How to Paint a Thing

Years ago I had a yoga instructor who would start every class in child’s pose or another restful place, and make sure we knew: “this is always available to you. You can come back here any time during the practice.” I would take that invitation seriously, sometimes spending half

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February Q&A

Welcome to our monthly Q&A! Submit your questions and/or requests for in depth posts on Discord or by email any time and I'll round them up here. This month we're talking about peeling tape without tearing the paper, honey based paints, how to

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Painting Outside

We went to the beach recently and I brought my paints along. I took some photos so I could show you about my experience painting on the go, or plein air as it's officially called. When I first tried painting outside I ran quickly into all the reasons

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Find your way into a practice that is all your own

I was saying how I like to split a page up into smaller shapes and paint inside of them. I thought I'd share more on why I think this works for me, as a way to lower the barrier to beginning as well as to learn my supplies

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What is gouache and why does Brit love it so much?

Gouache.   Let's get the hardest part out of the way. In US English it's pronounced "gwash": one syllable, just smash all the sounds together. Think "quash" but with a g, and a happier connotation. What is gouache? It's is a

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Watercolor Blob Cards

Hello EDI friends - It came up in the Discord that some of you wanted to try out a range of professional watercolors in different brands and colors before buy the entire expensive tubes. This makes so much sense! I haven't really had a way to do that,

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EDI Live - Sat Feb 26, 12PM PST

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Feb 2022: You do not have to be good

Perhaps at some point you have, like me, felt your life make sense for the first time under the spell of Mary Oliver's words: You do not have to be good. / You do not have to walk on your knees / for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

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Swatching 2.0: Layers

Here's something to try. It's like swatching in layers, but flows differently across the page.

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EDI Live - Sat Jan 29 12PM PST

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January Q&A

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2022 Brit: The Selfie

I'll be archiving the some of my IG process stories here with expanded annotation. Enjoy! (If you read the piece on artist grade watercolors, you might reconize the granulating sodalite geniune I'm using here for the hair, and the non-granulating, highly diluted yellowish mix for the