Posts by Nicholas Wilton

I thought I had to have everything figured out before I could teach. I thought I had to be an expert, so I waited a long time before I started teaching. I wish I hadn’t. There are some great reasons to teach especially if you are creative. Here are the top 3 reasons why you…

After working on a painting for about 3 hours, I find that the marks don’t come as easily, and it becomes more and more difficult to know where to go next. Fortunately I’ve discovered a little trick for getting around this issue. Watch the video to learn what it is. How do you deal with…

One of the hardest things in my life I have ever done was become an artist. Like so many people, I had serious doubts. I saw my life hadn’t been one of any particular struggle. I believed great art had to come out of monumental struggle. A place of deep anguish. Nothing particularly traumatic ever…

Being objective in how you view your art is crucial… Here’s a great, simple tool I use that helps me get there.

Art awakens us. It can be the meeting place where things come together that are exquisitely different from one another. I remember seeing Christo and Jean Claude’s Running Fence as a boy; that thin calligraphic line of white fabric that ran across the windswept, winter landscape of West Marin. It was mesmerizing. Partly so because…

We all procrastinate. Some days it feels harder to find the time to make your art. I know this is the case for me. Here is a little way I have found to overcome this problem. It just might help you too. Let me know if this rings true – or not true at all…