Hi! What about all the fabrics you love and those go-to colors that jump out at you? Whatever you've spent on them or how much you love them doesn't help when you need to choose the right ones for a piece with a certain mood. Mood? Isn't it hard enough just to choose something that looks like the picture you're recreating? Well it kind of depends on what you know about color. If you love your starter picture exactly the way it is, just copy it. But, really, how creative is th

It's not about doing a representational picture 'the correct way' because there is not one correct way. Your art is your interpretation of what you see. But you do need basic skills so that you can create what you see (and feel) rather than copying how someone else does it. When I taught elementary kids I often reminded them that we have already seen my picture, or that of another artist, so don't make another just like that, that would be boring. But they could learn from b