Mar 27, 2019 | Help for Artists, selling art, Tips, Tips for Artists, Tips Tricks and Art Hacks, tricks and Hacks for Artists, ways to promote art
Why on Earth Should Artists be on Instagram? You are? Good for you!No? You may have your reasons.Whatever the situation, you should understand why the platform is really a gift for artists. And it’s easily the best use of time and energy on social media....
Feb 23, 2019 | art materials, Art News, painting holiday, travel, Workshop News
The Unusual Origin. Indian yellow is a strong transparent pigment favored by many artists for its tinting properties. This yellow-orange color’s most alluring characteristic is that it can be used to warm up a color. Added to pink it makes that color turn red. Added...
Nov 13, 2018 | Tips Tricks and Art Hacks, art materials, art retreat, painting holiday, painting workshop
The color of Humility and Holiness Look in your paint box and you’ll no doubt find Ultramarine Blue, the most widely sold color after white. Artists have adored this blue pigment for millennia. We forget sometimes that paint is simply ground up minerals mixed...
Jul 21, 2018 | Places, Provence, Tips Tricks and Art Hacks
A Tip about Tipping Your guide to tipping in France. Don’t Tip Excessively! How much should you tip in France? Here’s a tip – over tipping can backfire. The French have high respect for their waiters. Very often they aren’t just waiting tables...
Jun 14, 2018 | Tips Tricks and Art Hacks, art materials, art retreat, painting holiday, painting workshop, personal enhancement
Read how the pencil gets its designation. It’s a French thing – how appropriate! The mighty pencil, is it H or B or HB and what does it mean? H is from HAUT. It means HIGH. There is a high quantity of binder creating a harder lead with less graphite...
May 23, 2018 | Art News, Interviews With Past Guests, Places, Provence, Tips Tricks and Art Hacks, Workshop News
Behind the Tim Horn Painting Workshop in Provence. Tim Horn’s plein air workshop in Provence is at our château near Avignon. Tim Horn is an internationally admired and collected artist who specializes in landscapes, rural scenes and man-made objects, including...
