Journey Art Supplies Blog

Tips, Tricks, Thoughts, and inspiration from across the art spectrum.

Why Should You Try American Journey Acrylic Paints?

Why Should You Try American Journey Acrylic Pai...

Mona Lisa

With the sheer volume of acrylic paints on the market, it can be frustrating and expensive to find the right paints for you. How do you know if the paint...

Why Should You Try American Journey Acrylic Pai...

Mona Lisa

With the sheer volume of acrylic paints on the market, it can be frustrating and expensive to find the right paints for you. How do you know if the paint...

Five Unexpected Health Benefits of Being Creative

Five Unexpected Health Benefits of Being Creative

Terry Henry

I must study politics and war, that our sons (and daughters) may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons (and daughters) ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography,...

Five Unexpected Health Benefits of Being Creative

Terry Henry

I must study politics and war, that our sons (and daughters) may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons (and daughters) ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography,...

Create Captivating Art by Understanding How Your Eye Moves

Create Captivating Art by Understanding How You...

Terry Henry

Understanding how to hold and direct your viewer’s attention is an important part of the design. When you’ve trained your eye to follow the visual forces in your painting, you...

Create Captivating Art by Understanding How You...

Terry Henry

Understanding how to hold and direct your viewer’s attention is an important part of the design. When you’ve trained your eye to follow the visual forces in your painting, you...

Create a Mobile Art Studio with Scaled Down Supplies

Create a Mobile Art Studio with Scaled Down Sup...

Brian Dubberly

It's almost effortless for us as artists, beginners or experienced, to begin to collect art supplies that we never end up using, forget we have, or hold onto "just in...

Create a Mobile Art Studio with Scaled Down Sup...

Brian Dubberly

It's almost effortless for us as artists, beginners or experienced, to begin to collect art supplies that we never end up using, forget we have, or hold onto "just in...

Group Art Ideas to Inspire and Challenge

Group Art Ideas to Inspire and Challenge

Carlee Hudson

Sometimes at Cheap Joe's, we love tackling unique group art ideas. We also understand that coming up with those group art ideas can be challenging whether you are an art...

Group Art Ideas to Inspire and Challenge

Carlee Hudson

Sometimes at Cheap Joe's, we love tackling unique group art ideas. We also understand that coming up with those group art ideas can be challenging whether you are an art...

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Getting Started With Watercolors: The Basics

Mona Lisa

Have you ever found yourself fascinated with watercolors' delicate and luminous nature? There's beautiful transparency and freshness to it that isn't as easily duplicated through mediums such as oil or...

Getting Started With Watercolors: The Basics

Mona Lisa

Have you ever found yourself fascinated with watercolors' delicate and luminous nature? There's beautiful transparency and freshness to it that isn't as easily duplicated through mediums such as oil or...

Oil Painting Tips for Those New to Oils

Oil Painting Tips for Those New to Oils

Carlee Hudson

Hello Artists, beginners and experts alike!   This week, our blog post is inspired by a request from Tanya M. Nevin of Van Gough's Ear Paint Studio (check out her...

Oil Painting Tips for Those New to Oils

Carlee Hudson

Hello Artists, beginners and experts alike!   This week, our blog post is inspired by a request from Tanya M. Nevin of Van Gough's Ear Paint Studio (check out her...

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues

CJAS Staff

Enjoy this blog post highlighting the characteristics and versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues. Winsor & Newton offers the purest pigments which inspire artists to create in limitless ways.

The Versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues

CJAS Staff

Enjoy this blog post highlighting the characteristics and versatility of Winsor & Newton Blues. Winsor & Newton offers the purest pigments which inspire artists to create in limitless ways.

Mark Mehaffey on \Personal Abstraction\""

Mark Mehaffey on \Personal Abstraction\""

Terry Henry

Mark Mehaffey was featured in the New Palette Magazine issue #61 which is now out of print. In this reprint, Mark shares with us his process in creating abstract shapes.

Mark Mehaffey on \Personal Abstraction\""

Terry Henry

Mark Mehaffey was featured in the New Palette Magazine issue #61 which is now out of print. In this reprint, Mark shares with us his process in creating abstract shapes.

Watercolor Wet into Wet Demystified - Wes Waugh

Watercolor Wet into Wet Demystified - Wes Waugh

Terry Henry

In this offering, Wes shows us the difference between a dry approach to painting versus the "wetness" technique in creating a landscape. Wes is one of our local (Boone, NC)...

Watercolor Wet into Wet Demystified - Wes Waugh

Terry Henry

In this offering, Wes shows us the difference between a dry approach to painting versus the "wetness" technique in creating a landscape. Wes is one of our local (Boone, NC)...

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David R. Smith Watercolor Demonstration: Master...

Leslie Snipes

David created this watercolor demo especially for Cheap Joe's as a way to share some painting skills that you can master while you stay home and make art. You'll learn...

David R. Smith Watercolor Demonstration: Master...

Leslie Snipes

David created this watercolor demo especially for Cheap Joe's as a way to share some painting skills that you can master while you stay home and make art. You'll learn...

What Is An Abstract Painting Anyway? by Skip Lawrence

What Is An Abstract Painting Anyway? by Skip La...

Terry Henry

Skip Lawrence is another one of my "favorite" artists. He has been teaching at Cheap Joe's forever and after interviewing him in 2017, I asked him to send me something...

What Is An Abstract Painting Anyway? by Skip La...

Terry Henry

Skip Lawrence is another one of my "favorite" artists. He has been teaching at Cheap Joe's forever and after interviewing him in 2017, I asked him to send me something...