Jane davies

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Commitment to process is an important key to getting unstuck. We have a habit of focusing on results, setting expectations, and making judgements accordingly. We want to know how things will turn out; we want to avoid uncertainty by planning, so that we get it ‘right’. While this habit of planning for results is essential for most activities in our lives (I don’t dispute the value of planning!), it does seem to be one of the main reasons that we get stuck as artists. Making some marks, the…

Do you get stuck at the blank canvas? Do you want to paint but don't know how to start? As your art practice evolves you will develop your own go-to strategies for beginning, but if you are new at painting, here are a few suggestions. Don't start a painting. Start multiple paintings. Do start with an inexpensive, low-stakes, substrate such as Bristol or 80# Cheap Drawing Paper Do focus on the practice, the process, not the 'finished' painting. Don't try to finish a painting. Do give yourself…

Date Recorded: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 Medium: Mixed Media Join Jane Davies as she takes you through her process of building a painting. She will share thoughts on tools and techniques and take your questions. Jane Davies is a full time artist working in collage, painting, and encaustic. She offers workshops at her studio and nationwide, focusing on helping people to find a personal and playful approach to art. Beginning as a potter in the early nineties, selling her colorful hand-painted…

Often composition is equated to planning, as if you could compose first (i.e. plan out the painting) and then paint, or execute the plan. Some artists and teachers use the terms Design and Composition interchangeably,both meaning to plan. And this approach works for many artists, but not for me. Take a look at my Technique Takeaway coming up, Composition as Process. Pink Shape, 9x12" This sense of composition may be analogous to a piece of music that is written out before it is played, a…

Jane Davies visionary abstract artist and educator based in Vermont.

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Jane is recognized nationally for her amazing talent and we are thrilled to be able to publish her art as in-stock prints and Print on Demand.