JUDY SHREVE (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning) Judy Shreve is enjoying success with her wonderful childlike drawings, but wants to know how to make her work more sophisticated, and more abstracted. In this month’s Art Critique, Nicholas demonstrates and explains to Judy—and all of us—several...

BALANCING RISK WITH DISCERNMENT (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning) How do you balance play and risk, with discernment and application of the principles? Listen in to Susan and Kathleen discussing this, as well as tips for scaling up, using texture, and slowing down enough to make clear...

DECIDING WHAT STAYS AND WHAT GOES (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning) This month we welcome Toril Kojan, who is interested in several things with her paintings—the textured surface, figures, colors and story. In this critique, Susan Melrath and Toril discuss design challenges, and make some...

ABSTRACTING THE TRADITIONAL (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning) Acrylic and multi-media artist Mary-Lou Boulanger is wanting to take her more traditional floral paintings to a more abstract and looser direction. To simplify, she has taken cropped areas of her past paintings to make...

GROUPING VALUES FOR SIMPLICITY (Suggested for Stage Three; Learning) Andrea Willow paints wonderful intuitive paintings full of color, shapes and narrative. Lately she has been desiring some simplicity in her work. She understands the concept of ‘less is more’ but knows she is more of a ‘more’...