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What's next? My favorite art resources

Welcome to this final post of Easy Does It! Part of what this change means for me is I'll be able to spend more of my time learning, and I love being a beginner. I want to ask new questions, study artists I love, and make marks in

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Acrylics + cats: working with opaque paints

Welcome to a new series on working with acrylics! I love this medium. It is so versatile and forgiving – a great place to play whether you are just starting out, or are working on refining your skills. To start us off, I'm going to walk us through a

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All the art I made in October: an Inspiration Ecosystem case study

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The emotional punchline

Here's a post I've been working on in bits and pieces over the past few weeks of being sick. I'm looking forward to rescheduling yesterday's live class that I had to cancel, hopefully in the next week or two when I am

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June 2025: Cut it up! & more

Hello artist friends, I'm writing to you so late in the month because I've been experience a health problem and have been resting a lot between doctor's appointments. This post is going to be a bit of a hodge podge of what's

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May 2025: In every mood

I am coming out a stretch of time where I let my creative practice slink back from the big projects and the large canvases, back into my sketchbook, to painting things just because. I can only focus on art with some kind of seriousness for so long. There are other

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▶️ Paint over anything: video

Hi friends! Here's a brief video companion to the process I shared earlier this month. I did a voiceover as well to bring in a bit more commentary on the process. See you soon at our Live class!

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🎥 [video] In the Studio with Brit: Safe Enough to Rest, Part 1

Hello dear Easy Does It artists! Today I have a new kind of post for you. Last month I filmed about 2.5 hours of real time process working through the creation of a new piece, Safe Enough to Rest. I share my entire process, keeping no secrets! We'

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February 2025 EDI Live Replay

Hello friends! I decided to try something new and begin sharing the EDI Live replay links here for all Light Tier members to see. I plan to keep each of these posts up for a several months at least so folks who weren't able to make it to

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Free Lesson! 🌱 For the love of art supplies (Part 2)

Try this: Think of your art supplies as experiences instead of a collection of treasures The money that you spent on them was not an investment It was more like buying a festival pass or birthday cake or a train ticket They were never meant to stay with you forever

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Color magic: mixing made easy

We have been updating a bedroom into a studio space in slow motion over the past year, and this past week Danielle installed beautiful hardwood floors. There were a few places that needed wood filler, and it stood out in contrast the rest of the flooring color. Now, I don&

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Using Color, pt 3: Brit's Abstract Diagrams

I wanted to show you specifically how I apply these concepts of limited palettes, blending and mixing in my open-ended abstract diagram series. I thought it might be interesting to run through some of the pieces I've made over the years and take note of color considerations that

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Using Color, Pt 2: Blending vs Mixing

Let's talk about the difference between blending and mixing color. Here's how I'm using these terms: Blending: to create a gradient or area of mixed paint on your paper/canvas by mixing wet paint into wet paint. The goal of blending is to soften

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Sketching from photo inspo

Last month we looked at reference photos: abstracting them, taking them, and finding them. Today I wanted to show you how the photos I used as examples have made their way into my representational sketchbook practice. These sketches are one of my favorite ways to consider the world and slow

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Reference photo resources

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How to take a good reference photo

When I shared the big folder of reference photos last month, a question came up in our EDI Live class about how to take pictures that are useful for painting – so, let's dive into that today. I love using reference photos. They make painting the world, whether representationally

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For you: Spring Reference Pics

So many times I have sat down to sketch and ended up using my time searching through my phone or royalty-free photo archives (like pexels or unsplash) just looking for something to paint. There can be some value to this process – really asking ourselves what we are interested in, the

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The flowers are here

The flowers are here! So I will be out painting them, sneezing and alive. Spring sun breaks are the perfect time to get outside and paint: they don't last long, and the light is magic. I've been continuing my project of using up my sketchbooks, and

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April 2024: Use your supplies (up)

If I could offer one piece of creative practice advice it would be this: Use your supplies. Think of them as experiences – like a concert ticket or a birthday cake – not a collection of treasures. We're never meant to keep them. Plus, they don't last forever

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Drawing Sticks & Value

Last month I shared two posts about becoming acquainted with a new material, in my case: oil pastels (here and here). If the new material is any kind of drawing stick – a dry material that comes in distinct colors that are not easily mixed – it's important to get

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Collaborative decisions: commissions

This time last year I was writing to you about painting the burnt out forests of the mountain ranges near me, and I'm back at it painting the mountains again this winter. After camping with a friend in the southern Cascades earlier this year, she asked if she

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note-to-self zine

In our live class last weekend we made two types of zines, and I want to show you one of them. I didn't have a name for it last week, but now that I've sat with mine on my desk for a week I've

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A stance against bombs

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Stepping around perfectionism

Earlier this month I wrote about stepping around perfectionism instead of tackling it head on. Here's one of my favorite ways to do that: Take 6 or 8 or 10 pieces of small/medium sized paper (I used watercolor paper that I tore down from a large sheet)

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Value, Part 2

Welcome to Part 2! Let's continue to play with value. Here are some ways to get started: Getting it right: actual gray 5! I tend to mix my middle gray chart darker than it should be. When we look back at this month's first post you