Lindy Cook Severns

What went on underneath this painted meadow

I did this new 12x9 soft pastel on buff Pastel Premier paper mounted to archival art board, then underpainted the 5 horizontal bands in gouache-- sorry I don't have progress photos, but if you care ab…

If you were just learning to draw, what would be most valuable to you? I'm putting together an online course for beginning artists, and I'm finding it very hard to think like one! Jump in with comment…

If you take a workshop, do you want a supply list of the specific things the artist uses (brand, color, surface media, light source, varnish etc) or do you prefer a simple, generic list of suggested s…

Thanks to everyone who voted for my artwork for the cover of Art That Sells Itself. That put me in the top 10 finalists. Thank you to ASF for selecting my painting out of some awesome entries. I was b…

How do you know when to sign a drawing or painting (or stop editing a photograph?) and walk away? How do you feel when you do that?? When do you quit?

What stage of a painting is hardest for you to get through? There's a point for me in almost every artwork I create--drawing or painting-- where I stumble, thrash and/or think I'm not skilled enough t…

Summer Breeze

This is still wet on my easel, but I'm calling it finished! "The Long Way Home Under A Texas Sunset" is a 36"x18" oil on Gessobord and I'm proud of it because its the first large-ish painting I've don…

I started an 18" x 36" oil landscape yesterday with a warm underpainting of burnt umber, cad orange, cad yellow and grayed cobalt blue heavily diluted with Gamsol mineral spirits. I brushed it on, the…

I believe the outer packaging should look neat and tidy and sort of fun, like it's Christmas or some special occasion, because it is. Packaging is the first tangible thing the buyer encounters when th…