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Bespoke: the advantages of online learning

Bespoke: the advantages of online learning

Carol L. DouglasApr 15, 20254 min read
This is going to be a going bespoke class, tailored to you—your strengths, your weaknesses, your needs, your aspirations.
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Monday Morning Art School: mixing beautiful greens

Carol L. DouglasApr 13, 20254 min read
The rookie error for summer is to paint all foliage using the same basic color. You lose more points if it’s sap green. Bracken Fern, by Carol L. Douglas, 9X12, oil on canvasboard, $869. I’m in Malta, so I don’t know if this is timely or not, but we’re about due for the earliest color …
Neolithic art, made by artists like me

Neolithic art, made by artists like me

Carol L. DouglasApr 10, 20254 min read
I feel a great kinship with the unknown craftsmen who made this neolithic art 5000 years ago. They were artists just like you and me.
Our place in space

Our place in space

Carol L. DouglasApr 8, 20253 min read
Photos never capture our place in space. That’s a multisensory experience, coming from our balance, our eyesight, our hearing, and of course our binocular vision. Even the breeze plays a part.
Monday Morning Art School: how to choose the right art supplies

Monday Morning Art School: how to choose the right art supplies

Carol L. DouglasApr 6, 20254 min read
Buying more art supplies can be fun, or it can be a form of flailing around. It can be displacement behavior; it’s easier than buckling down.