Blue Cardinal - Online Art Academy

Whether you use beads, paints, or another medium… Organizing your palette by color wheel is ALWAYS a good idea 🌈

🎨 Reason no.1 : It’s quicker finding the color you’re looking for

🎨 Reason no.2 : Colors get less muddy if they run into each other

🎨 Reason no.3 : It’s easier to see the subtle differences in hue when they’re all right next to their closest match

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Here are some tips for creating a strong BACKGROUND:

1. Keep it dynamic, but make sure the movement compliments that of the foreground.

2. Give it depth with several layers of different opacity.

3. Stick to a color palette that compliments the foreground.

4. Most importantly, your background will never be seen in entirety — it is meant to be seen in-between the focal points. So make sure the texture is interesting wherever it may show through.

[Example: Celine was commissioned to create a background on canvas, for this photo collage to be transferred onto, with space around the edges to add more photos in the future.]

Learn more from Celine at Blue Cardinal Art Academy 🪺

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Collaboration between painter / production designer and dancer / choreographer on set pieces for an upcoming dance number.

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Courses in performing arts, visual arts, and more ✨

A peek into our multidisciplinary art studio ✨👀✨

Completely customized so we can write, paint, sculpt, sew, DJ, dance, film, and photoshop… all in one space!

Want to learn how to maximize the flow of your workspace? 🗄

Our mentors will help you redesign your studio, to fit the needs of your practice!

With our tips for storage, lighting, cleanliness and ergonomics for artists… You can turn any space into your ultimate creation station!

Register for our Workspace Design class today ⭐️⭐️⭐️

ART TIP #119 ✨

Whenever you have extra paint leftover… use it up by creating a textural layer that can be saved as a pre-made background or collage material for a future piece.

By “composting” leftovers from a finished piece, you are already fertilizing your future projects! 💩🌱💩

AND reducing the waste of your time and materials! ♻️

Same goes for other disciplines… Keep the footage that doesn’t make the final cut — anything that still has potential.

Want to know how to make your art practice more sustainable, efficient, and long-lasting? ☀️

Apply for Blue Cardinal mentorship today, and our art coaches will personally help you level up your work flow 🌊

Visit our website to learn more 🪺

[Acrylic on mixed media paper, by Blue Cardinal teacher Celine]

Drawing Tip : Start out by working in graphite / greyscale

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Train yourself in light and shadow BEFORE incorporating color.

Learn to make dynamic compositions, compelling textures, and strong contrast with ONE pencil / pen.

This is the foundational training for drawing. It’s always helpful to go back to monochrome, to tune up your observational skills or plan out preliminary drawings.

Stuffed Animal Still Life (graphite on paper 2022) by Celine, Blue Cardinal art coach.

To learn more about drawing, take a class with Celine! Register through our website ✨👆✨

Autumn is coming 🍁 Registration for fall semester is open!

Classes include:
* Painting & Drawing
* Performing Arts
* Portfolio Development
* Creative Process
* and much more…

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[Watercolor by , Blue Cardinal teacher]

Art Lesson: Watercolor Experiments
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1. SALT🧂
2. ICE 🧊

Watercolour paintings are always a record of water’s inherent behaviour, a collaboration with fluid dynamics. 🌊💦

The first painting shows the way water contracts when drawn into salt crystals… while the second painting shows the way water expands and crystallizes when frozen. ❄️

The job of an Artist is similar to that of a scientist… to study the qualities of their chosen medium, to record experiments with different combinations, and to discover new aesthetic possibilities.

You can be taught how to use your paints like the Masters, but true Artistry is in creating your own methods of using raw materials.

Mastery is the ability to turn those aha discoveries and promising experiments, into a functioning element in a successful composition.

How do you experiment with your materials? ✨🫵✨

Watercolor Paintings by Christopher (Blue Cardinal art mentor) 🔸💙🔸

Marionette Stringing Tutorial with Christopher 💚

This beautiful puppet is starring in Abigail Lapell’s new music video, coming out TOMORROW!!! 🌟

Marionette :
Wood carving, control, strings by Christopher Cardineau
Paint, costume, hair by Céline Cardineau

Painting from Life — that is, painting what is ALIVE 🪴— is completely different from painting an artificial object or digital image 👾

Mother Nature embodies the beauty of life-giving PERFECTION in her harmonious proportions, vibrant colors, and sensual forms…

She simultaneously embodies the beauty of IMPERFECTION, organic forms, cycles of creation and destruction, and diversity.

As Artists, we must remember to draw from this abundant source of natural inspiration, if we are to create something ALIVE and true to our original being.

Remember to be mindful when choosing the subject of your artistic focus. 👁

Follow Blue Cardinal Art Academy for more mindful art tips and conscious creative process coaching! ✨👍✨

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