Posts by Nicholas Wilton

Your art studio doesn’t have to be a gigantic freestanding building with roll up doors and it’s own kitchen and a guest room for visiting artist friends. It would be nice, but it doesn’t have to have be like that at all. It can be half of a rarely used dining room table or even…

Pricing can be a difficult thing. Here’s how I price my work.

When I teach workshops I always have people work on several paintings at the same time. That way when you gets stuck you can merely move on to another one. The idea being that if you can keep moving—even if it is on a different painting that this is a good thing. The flow state…

I always have a roll of paper towels with me… See why.

Sometimes you just get stuck. You are painting along fine and then you reach a point where you don’t know what to do. It might be because you have fallen in love and have lost objectivity. It might because the color is off somehow. But usually you stop and pullover because you just actually have…