These are some of my most popular articles about making art. Some of them explore materials and processes, while others talk about how emotionally complicated being an artist really is.
Blog / Best of Art-making Articles
- 2025 Why I Prefer Brushes to Paint Pens
- 2023 Keeping an Eye on My Art Line
- 2018 Crosshatch Painting
- 2018 Painting in a Traditional Realist Style Is Like Doing a Cover Song.
- 2017 The Grid Method for Transferring an Image
- 2015 Free Online Drawing Workshop for Artists and Amateurs
- 2014 Writing an Artist’s Statement
- 2010 My Brushes
- 2025 A Declaration about AI in My Art and on My Blog
- 2024 Milan Art Institute’s Epic AI Error
- 2024 Can You See Time?
- 2024 How Social Media and AI Are Making Art Boring
- 2023 How to Sell Art on Instagram (The Article I Never Wrote)
- 2023 Why Human Art Will Always Be More Interesting to Us Than AI Images
- 2022 After Janet Sobel: On Jackson Pollock and Text-to-image AI Art
- 2024 The Difference between Fine Art and Illustration
- 2022 How to Get Over an Art Block
- 2021 Art Anxiety
- 2020 Being a Slow Art Maker in a World Moving at the Speed of Memes
- 2019 Why Do You Make Art?
- 2019 Appreciating the Villains in Your Life
- 2018 How to Stay Creative
- 2014 What the Artist Adrienne Lewis Did for Me by Copying My Style
- 2022 Pushing the Limits of What’s Possible
- 2022 The Dreaded “You Should”
- 2021 We Are All Influencers
- 2021 Stupid Like a Geranium
- 2018 Beauty and Human Understanding
- 2018 Artists Are Magical.
- 2016 An Artist Instead of a Graphic Designer
- 2016 How to Be the Perfect Artist
- 2015 Just a Visual Artist
- 2013 The Selfish Artist
- 2008 The Difference Between Propaganda and Art
- 2008 The Definition of Art
- 2025 “This Is William Hurt, the Actor.”
- 2023 Painting the Breath and Movement in a Portrait
- 2023 Painting the Signifiers in a Portrait
- 2023 Painting Skin in a Portrait
- 2023 Painting the Teeth in a Portrait
- 2023 Painting the Mouth in a Portrait
- 2023 Painting the Eyes in a Portrait
- 2023 Painting the Nose and Ears in a Portrait
- 2023 Where to Start When Painting a Portrait
- 2021 Riva Lehrer and the Intensity of True Portraiture
- 2019 Perfect Portrait Subject: Katie
- 2019 Perfect Portrait Subject: Caitlin
- 2019 Perfect Portrait Subject: Sylvia
- 2016 Painting Portraits on Tote Bags
- 2015 Why Portraiture
- 2015 The Psychology of Self-portraiture