Journey Art Supplies Blog

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

Celebrating Father's Day: The Father's of Art

Celebrating Father's Day: The Father's of Art

Mona Lisa

With Father’s Day in mind, I started to think about Fathers and Art. Which then lead me to think about Fathers in Art. Which then lead to the Fathers of...

Celebrating Father's Day: The Father's of Art

Mona Lisa

With Father’s Day in mind, I started to think about Fathers and Art. Which then lead me to think about Fathers in Art. Which then lead to the Fathers of...

Hue Paints: What They Are and Why They're Worth A Try

Hue Paints: What They Are and Why They're Worth...

Mona Lisa

When ordering paints, especially watercolor paints, customers are wary about ordering colors that include the word Hue in them. They are told that these are substandard paints and should be...

Hue Paints: What They Are and Why They're Worth...

Mona Lisa

When ordering paints, especially watercolor paints, customers are wary about ordering colors that include the word Hue in them. They are told that these are substandard paints and should be...

A Simple Plein Air Oil Painting Set Up

A Simple Plein Air Oil Painting Set Up

Leslie Snipes

When I began painting landscapes again, I wanted a minimal plein air oil painting kit that I could grab and go that wouldn't take forever to set up. Here's my...

A Simple Plein Air Oil Painting Set Up

Leslie Snipes

When I began painting landscapes again, I wanted a minimal plein air oil painting kit that I could grab and go that wouldn't take forever to set up. Here's my...

Calligraphy Ink Color Names Using Homemade Pearl Ex Pigment Inks on Black Paper by Joi Hunt

How to Make Calligraphy Ink with Jacquard's Pea...

Leslie Snipes

<p>Ever wanted to create your own calligraphy inks in any color and sheen you can imagine? It's simpler than you think! Learn how to mix your own calligraphy or drawing...

How to Make Calligraphy Ink with Jacquard's Pea...

Leslie Snipes

<p>Ever wanted to create your own calligraphy inks in any color and sheen you can imagine? It's simpler than you think! Learn how to mix your own calligraphy or drawing...

Oil Painting by Erin Berrett, Nostalgic painting of a Bernina sewing machine with spools of thread.

Featured Artist: Erin Berrett, Contemporary Rea...

Leslie Snipes

Ampersand Gessobord artist Erin Berrett is a contemporary realism oil painter best known for her still-lifes. Some of her favorites are meaningful commissions that have sweet or fun and quirky...

Featured Artist: Erin Berrett, Contemporary Rea...

Leslie Snipes

Ampersand Gessobord artist Erin Berrett is a contemporary realism oil painter best known for her still-lifes. Some of her favorites are meaningful commissions that have sweet or fun and quirky...

Artist Jane Hunt painting en plein air in a poppy field.

Interview with Landscape Painter Jane Hunt, by ...

Leslie Snipes

Learn more about artist Jane Hunt's evocative impressionistic landscape paintings on Gessobord panels in this interview by Ampersand. Her sweeping landscapes skillfully merge a sense of immense wonderment with a...

Interview with Landscape Painter Jane Hunt, by ...

Leslie Snipes

Learn more about artist Jane Hunt's evocative impressionistic landscape paintings on Gessobord panels in this interview by Ampersand. Her sweeping landscapes skillfully merge a sense of immense wonderment with a...

Hands applying a white piece of paper with Merry Christmas written on it onto the bottom of a paper Christmas Tree artwork.

DIY 3D Christmas Tree Holiday Card

Leslie Snipes

Take your handmade holiday cards to the next level with this three-dimensional Christmas tree card! Simple materials like cut paper and glue are embellished with glossy embossing powders that give...

DIY 3D Christmas Tree Holiday Card

Leslie Snipes

Take your handmade holiday cards to the next level with this three-dimensional Christmas tree card! Simple materials like cut paper and glue are embellished with glossy embossing powders that give...

"Guidelines" by Skip Lawrence

"Guidelines" by Skip Lawrence

Terry Henry

Skip Lawrence offers some Guidelines for finding a more personally expressive, creative, and sincere way to paint. From the Palette Magazine.

"Guidelines" by Skip Lawrence

Terry Henry

Skip Lawrence offers some Guidelines for finding a more personally expressive, creative, and sincere way to paint. From the Palette Magazine.

Hue And You: Some Thoughts On Color Selection by Linda Fruhwald

Hue And You: Some Thoughts On Color Selection b...

Terry Henry

Is this the way you choose colors for a painting? 1. Pull a few tubes of paint at random out of your paint box 2. Start painting 3. Hope for...

Hue And You: Some Thoughts On Color Selection b...

Terry Henry

Is this the way you choose colors for a painting? 1. Pull a few tubes of paint at random out of your paint box 2. Start painting 3. Hope for...

Finding Your Space

Finding Your Space

Terry Henry

Your treatment of pictorial space (how much you emphasize the illusion of depth) depends on your expressive intent. Here are your choices, their advantages, and their disadvantages. Reprinted from the...

Finding Your Space

Terry Henry

Your treatment of pictorial space (how much you emphasize the illusion of depth) depends on your expressive intent. Here are your choices, their advantages, and their disadvantages. Reprinted from the...

"Painting A Series" by Anne-Marie Harvey

"Painting A Series" by Anne-Marie Harvey

Terry Henry

Anne-Marie Harvey demonstrates how you can explore new approaches and develop a style by Painting A Series. Reprinted from Watermedia Focus Magazine now called the New Palette Magazine.

"Painting A Series" by Anne-Marie Harvey

Terry Henry

Anne-Marie Harvey demonstrates how you can explore new approaches and develop a style by Painting A Series. Reprinted from Watermedia Focus Magazine now called the New Palette Magazine.

"Value Judgement" by Don Andrews

"Value Judgement" by Don Andrews

Terry Henry

Anne-Marie Harvey demonstrates how you can explore new approaches and develop a style by Painting A Series. Reprinted from Watermedia Focus Magazine now called the New Palette Magazine.

"Value Judgement" by Don Andrews

Terry Henry

Anne-Marie Harvey demonstrates how you can explore new approaches and develop a style by Painting A Series. Reprinted from Watermedia Focus Magazine now called the New Palette Magazine.