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This is my site for free art resources and for users of the Vue 3D natural environment software. The emphasis is on digital art.
Free art lessons and resources:
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Use my $19.95 Art Head Start art lessons ebook to help you learn Art Design and Visual Communication basics. With it you can learn art at home, get an art school refresher or supplement your art school art courses.
We are currently in a popular art revolution, similar to the one a century ago when photography was invented - and suddenly almost anyone could make their own pictures. Now inexpensive digital art tools, online digital art portals and artist's sales sites like Fine Art America, have opened a world of image making, sharing and art commerce to millions of people, whether or not they have mastered traditional art tools.
If you're looking to get started in digital art I suggest a visit to my Squidoo Lens for a jump start.
What about the spiritual, soulful side of art making? That's harder to teach and more personal, but it's something I discuss in my book and my art blog.
Wishing you a creative future!In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
Zen Master
If you aim to dispense with method, learn method.
If you aim at facility, work hard.
If you aim for simplicity, master complexity.
Lu Ch'ai (Wang Kai)
17th century master ink painter
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
Painter
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
painter
“You must learn first to observe the rules faithfully; afterwards, modify them according to your intelligence and capacity.
The end of all method is to seem to have no method.”
Lu Ch'ai (Wang Kai)
17th century master ink painter
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso, Painter
