DIY Sketchbooks and Painting in a Canoe
What a fantastic week!
The rain held off until after the Boat for the Vote event on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn last Friday evening.
photo taken by my daughter, Nicole, from another canoe as we drifted along
The first mini course in the Series of DIY Sketchbooks & Illustrated...
Blooper Videos on DIY Body Easel
What a ridiculous amount of mishaps and poor judgement occurred as I attempted to film myself doing a demo of quick, direct watercolor sketches in the cornfield. I was working on an additional lesson using the Analogous with Split Complements color scheme in The Color Scheme Game online course....
Why Red and Blue Don't Always Give You Purple.
The gift I was blessed with when arriving in this world was the gift of curiosity. It certainly wasn't the gift of drawing or painting. Those skills have been learned and honed over a life time of putting pencil and brush to paper. I draw and paint to observe the world more carefully....
Celebrating the Relaunch of The Color Scheme Game
The Color Scheme Game
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As easy as it might be to give up when the going gets tough, it's simply not in my nature to let nonsense get in the way of living my life as an artist and sharing that joy with other artists. After a recent conflict with...
Sketching in Series - Sketchbook Storytime
The video is a selection of clips from five different Sketchbook Storyhour videos that, awhile back, I posted on a regular basis on my Youtube Channel. I chose clips that featured sketches from three of my Series of 100 Sketches; Family Treasures, Trumpet Parts and Glass Ink Wells as well...
Musicians - Dip Pen and Watercolor In the Dark
Three to four nights a week I braved the darkness of night, alone, to drive to Easton, PA where I spent the next four hours dipping my pen into ink and mixing colors I couldn't see in the poorly lit pubs. The live music, sounds of the crowd and the movements of musicians, dancers and drinkers...
Strokes with Watercolor and Brush
Back in 2004 I had the good fortune of working with BT. He showed up to one of Pat Sonne's en plein air life drawing sessions. Pat and I had just begun collaborating on what we called Zakar Events. We attended local pubs where Pat moved to the live music as I sketched,...
Feeling Rather Embarrassed
For over two years I've had this wonderful website on the Kajabi platform to teach extensive, deep-dive online classes. It is exactly what I dreamt of being able to do for more than a decade before Kajabi entered onto the scene. At the same time, I was traveling extensively, fewer...
Painting a Hedgerow in Watercolor
Slowly making my way back to creating en plein air videos to share with you in the current and upcoming online classes both on Skillshare.com/chriscarterart and here on ExploreWithChrisCarter.com. To introduce this fun series I published a short class last Friday on Skillshare, Painting...
Children's Tea Party
Three paintings in progress
The painting in the upper left corner began as a painting of a tea party, my three children, Alexis, Nicole and Mike, and Mike's friend, Keith gathered around a small, orange table, a mason jar filled with flowers as a centerpiece. The painting never progressed...
