Creative Art Ideas Inspiration Tips & More

Don’t let a creative dry spell stop you from painting or drawing! With our articles & interviews focused on artistic
inspiration you’ll discover how fellow artists overcome blocks as well as new sources for your own art inspiration ideas. Get great art inspiration every week and dive into our top creative books titles. Creative art ideas can be found almost anywhere so start painting and drawing and let your imagination free!

Columbus Museum of Art: Art Madness

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If you live in the United States, chances are that you’re familiar with the predictable patterns that inevitably take over in March: usurped living rooms and TVs, filled sports bars, and old college jerseys, shaken out of dusty cardboard boxes. … Full Article

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Three Creativity Challenges to Improve Your Art

Parasol, watercolor painting by Keiko Yasuoka

Keiko Yasuoka’s paintings take you to many places. Winter mountain ranges, a busy evening in San Fancisco, a sublime bay with sailboats waiting for dawn to break, just to name a few. And these are just her landscapes.
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Paint the Mystery of the Night

The Café Terrace at Night (oil on canvas, 31.8x25.7) by Vincent van Gogh

If you’d like to portray the night landscape in a painting, let Brian Keeler show you how in this new DVD: Oil Painting Techniques: Night Landscape. Full Article

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Beautiful Paintings and Artwork Featured in Our April Issue

Beautiful Paintings

The April issue is officially on newsstands! If you’re not a subscriber, you can also order a digital or print issue from North Light Shop today. In the meantime, I’d like to share with you this gorgeous slideshow of the art that’s featured, along with a letter about this issue from Maureen Bloomfield. Full Article

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The Sketchbook Project: Online Gallery

by Margaret Stermer Cox

Even though it is, in most cases, an artist’s least seen work (often by design), a sketchbook can offer the most intimate view into an artist’s process. It is there that moments of high creativity come to life in the … Full Article

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Mimi Jensen’s Week at the Met

Mimi Jensen, Fine Artist

Artist Mimi Jensen recently set out on a very special art excursion. This wasn’t just any trip to any gallery—the enthusiastic Jensen flew across the country with her husband to devote an entire week to touring the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an experience of a lifetime. Here she talks about her trip. Full Article

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Secrets to Making a Masterpiece | Know Your Purpose

April 2013 PAstel Journal

Being reminded of the purpose, or concept, that motivated us to paint a specific subject, or scene, is key to evolving as an artist, once technical mastery is achieved. Without purpose, it is easy to fall prey to technical perfection devoid of feeling. It may look exactly like the scene but says very little. Practice may get an artist to Carnegie Hall but it is passion that produces rave reviews. Full Article

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Is Art a Life Raft For You?

Life Raft by Katie O'Hagan, oil figure painting

I first saw artist Katie O’Hagan’s contemporary work when it was projected onto a large screen in a dark room. Read about this and more in The Artist’s Magazine blog. Full Article

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The Mountains and Valleys of Creativity

Landscape Painting by Don Tiller

One of my favorite sayings is “we wouldn’t have mountains without the valleys.” Learn how Maggie Price’s newest book, Creative Freedom, can keep you inspired to create and stay on top of the mountain. Full Article

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Want to Learn How to Paint with Acrylic? Get Started for Free!

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Free Download! Get a section from Lee Hammond’s book, Acrylic Painting, to learn acrylic painting techniques! Full Article

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