Manufacturers slap "professional" and "archival" on ordinary accessories to trigger your FOMO. Learn to spot the jargon, understand what actually matters, and stop buying solutions to problems you don't have yet.
Choosing paper feels overwhelming with so many types, weights, and terms to sort through. This guide breaks down tooth, lbs versus gsm, and more. It includes a reference table listing various paper types alongside some of the mediums that work well with each.
From hand drawn collages in a dollar store frames to a digital art series in four colorways, this is the story of how three flowers became the Botanic Series at Line & Blossom Design.
Beginner art supplies advice is everywhere, and almost none of it actually tells you what to buy or why. After experimenting with more mediums than anyone should admit to, six rules emerged that apply no matter where your art journey takes you.
Going digital saved my art. Here is the honest story of drawing tablets, Clip Studio Paint, aphantasia, and why Control Z is my new best friend.
You found your subject. Now comes the harder part. To Find your art style means going on a few bad dates, making a mess, and occasionally framing something you never plan to repeat. This is the story of how I found mine.
Everyone knows the trick: close your eyes and picture something. Sheep jumping a fence. A beach. A loved one's face. I have never once been able to do that. This is what it is actually like to live with aphantasia.
Most artists close their eyes and see what they want to draw. I close my eyes and see nothing. Absolutely nothing. This is how I create botanical art with a completely blank mind's eye.
Can you really learn to draw as an adult? After 50 years of believing the talent myth, one book changed everything. This is the story of how I went from "no talent" to artist at 55, and why drawing is a skill anyone can learn.