Be the artist in residence of your world. A weekly dose of wonder from artist and bestselling author Amy Stewart. Supporters get sketchbook and notebook tutorials and a deeper dive.
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154. Painting Your Feelings, and Using a Poem as a Reference
Give it a try!
On Friday I sent out this post about an Olav Hauge poem and the painting I made to go along with it.
Olav Hauge’s Luminous Spaces
In Norway last month I saw Edvard Munch’s paintings everywhere, and then I went home and read Karl Ove Knausgaard’s excellent book about his art and his life. One thing that has stayed with me is how rough Munch’s paintings were, how unfini...
153. Travel sketchbook flip-through
A trip to Barcelona, Venice, and Prague
I’m traveling right now, so while I’m away, I thought I’d share a sketchbook from another time when I was away. This is a sketchbook I kept on a trip a couple years ago through Barcelona, Venice, and...
152. Draw Your State Bird
A quick sketch with watercolor and colored pencil
Show me your state bird!
One Book, Ten Cover Designs
My new book, STATE BIRD: A Nation Elects Its Feathered Representatives, has a cover! It’s exactly the kind of cover I’d hoped for—it has this kind of jaunty road trip/ whimsical civics lesson vibe that is easy to describe, but how do you tr...
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