Archive - Artist's Cheat Sheet

June 2025

Correction, Boone, View Paintings

The free Artist’s Resource List is no longer paywalled, online plein air show, sketch today

Jun 28 •

Guptill’s Drawing With Pen and Ink

Book review and flip-through of the classic text on YouTube

Jun 26 •

How Plein Air Painters Paint

Painting festival artists share their unique strategies for painting outdoors

Jun 25 •

Third Place Winner!

Juror Ron Donoughe awards third place to my sketch of a chaotic woodpile

Jun 21 •

Plein Air Quick Update!

This year, an unusual approach to plein air painting and inclement weather converge to create new and surprising outcomes.

Jun 18 •

Plein Air Season Begins

How I prepped cradled birchwood panels for a week of outdoor painting

Jun 14 •

Sketching a Country Road Scene

Using a mix of watercolors, gouache, pens, and pencils on an outdoor sketch

Jun 10 •

Sketching the View From the Woodshed

How to make sense of a complex scene

Jun 7 •

Vintage Advertisement Jigsaw Puzzles

Reveal beautiful, mid-century advertising art while solving puzzles.

Jun 4 •

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