November Guest Artist – Kevin Nakagawa

The Value of Value
by Kevin Nakagawa
In my work, I’m always attempting to communicate several things with visual tools. Color is always a strong element within a composition but my focus is primarily on something even more basic. Color can be broken down into the visual components of:

Hue (the color)

Intensity (relative brightness)

Temperature (warm/cool), and

Value (relative light [...]

Sketch, Paint and Sponge a Scene

Farm Friends
By: Kittie Caracciolo, Artistic Guide
Finished card size: 5.25″ x 5.25″
I love to create scenes around stamped images. Sketching in a few lines with an artist pen and adding color with sponges and brushes takes a simple stamped image and adds a scene full of life and color. If you can write, you can sketch [...]