by Nicholas Wilton | Dec 7, 2017 |
I get up super early these days and ride my bicycle to the studio. This time of year it is quite cold and almost dark when I start. There are not too many people up yet and sometimes I feel I shouldn’t be either. The cars that speedily pass me this early are most...
by Nicholas Wilton | Dec 3, 2017 |
Learning how to balance a painting’s composition can be difficult. If you add in too many marks, the piece can become crowded, making it difficult for the viewer to know where to focus. Fortunately, there’s a simple solution for this. Watch the video and...
by Nicholas Wilton | Nov 30, 2017 |
I became somewhat obsessed with this question early on and have been asking myself the same one for my entire life. In my current job of mentoring artists, I now help others find their own answers to this very same question. It is not necessary to even know the full...
by Nicholas Wilton | Nov 26, 2017 |
I’ve been working on this painting that’s been driving me crazy – I just haven’t been able to make any progress on it. Today though, I finally had the breakthrough I’ve been waiting for! Watch the video and let me know what you think....
by Nicholas Wilton | Nov 23, 2017 |
I kind of cringed when I wrote that subject line. I used to think like this. In the past, usually when my art was not going so well, I would look outside of myself for answers. Maybe I hadn’t sold anything or was just feeling kind of unconfident about what I was...
by Nicholas Wilton | Nov 19, 2017 |
I recently tried something new – I started working on a piece of canvas pinned to a wood panel. What ended up happening was totally unexpected and so cool! Watch the video and let me know what you think – what happened when you brought something new to...
