Donna Zagotta, award-winning watermedia artist, writes about how to improve your art by painting in series.
3 Paintings from Donna’s City Series
In a recent post, I asked readers to share ideas for how they were working with, or planned to work with, the Deliberate Practice material I presented on this blog.
I love this idea from Karen K. She said that she has been doing daily 30 minute studies for over a year and says that focusing on [...]
“Visual art is a vehicle for creating worlds that are non-existent.” Nathan Oliveira
I recently learned that one of my favorite contemporary artists, Nathan Oliveira, passed away in November. I was first drawn to Oliveira’s work because he is often associated with the Bay Area Figurative Painters, an art movement that has greatly impacted my work and thinking. [...]
As I sit in my studio writing today’s post I am surrounded by messes. These messes can be seen in the rest of the house as well - the dining room, kitchen, and family room (no messes in the bathroom, though). Oh – but this time the messes are GOOD MESSES! They are evidence and confirmation of goals achieved and a dream come true. I sit surrounded by 20 [...]
I’m excited to say that my painting in today’s post, Look Both Ways will be included in the 2010 National Watercolor Society Exhibition that opens later this month in San Pedro, California. It was a breakthrough painting for me, it’s one of my favorites, and I am so thrilled that the jurors liked it too!
Look Both Ways is part of [...]
As I’ve noted in earlier posts, a series contains a certain number of pieces that are united in theme, subject, materials or medium. A theme reflects an artist’s interest – for example Monet’s series of Haystack paintings, where the subject of haystacks was simply a jumping off place to paint his real passion, which was light. John Singer Sargent’s [...]
I am a watermedia painter and I teach painting workshops all around the country. As anyone who knows me or has taken one of my workshops can attest to, I love talking about art, thinking about art, reading about art, writing about art, looking at art, and practicing art - so grab a cup of coffee, join me in the studio and let's talk art!