Kell Belle Studio

Maya on canvas is the 5th in a series of modern folk art paintings I've done over the past 3 months. With each painting I learn a little...

Gesture drawings can help take the fear out of drawing the human form. If you ever thought that you can't even draw a stick figure, I...

Mixed media art has been such fun for me especially the creation of this collage painting on wood panel entitled "Sabine." The cre...

Sunny Carvalho is such a delight and sweet as can be. She welcomed me like a sister and even procured me a name badge when one was not incl...

On Thursday evening something called the Iron Chef Artist Challenge was held. Clarissa Callesen immersed in the creative process 18 of ...

Day 1 of Artfest was spent with Robert Smith learning how to create spirit dolls using wire and hog gut. We were given simple instructions f...

Now that I've been painting for a couple of months, I am able to begin offering some tips for painting with acrylic paint. One of the bi...

Artfest 2011 happened the week of April 6 - 10 this year out at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, WA. Imagine an old military base, 500 creative...

I am willing to contemplate myself. I am willing to forgive. I am willing to release my fears and doubts. I do not need to know how these th...

While I understand the concept of blending acrylic paint, the artists I've observed who are successful at it make it look so darn easy! ...

The greatest challenge to painting faces with acrylic is the quick drying time of the paint which can make it difficult to get the nice blen...

If you are like me and sometimes wonder how to release fear of anything the answer is simple. You have to face the thing you fear. You have ...

Is there a such thing as a painting phobia? What would the fear of mixed media painting be called? Artistaphobia? Painterphobia? Whatever it...

Ahhh! Progress at last! Today I tried something a little different with my mixed media face painting. The change made such an enormous diffe...