Art is not passive observation but an active choice about how you interact with the world. You compose your view and your mind's eye determines what you notice. The goal is to keep correcting, choose better, and refine how you see.

Discover the Japanese art of Notan, where complexity dissolves into elegant simplicity through the dance of light and dark. Learn to see the world not as objects, but as powerful shapes that create the hidden structure beneath every great painting.

Guts, a sense of humor, and stickability…..and that’s about it! After an open attitude, good art materials are nice to have too!

Colour is relative and strongly influenced by its surroundings. It’s useful to learn which colours work most effectively next to each other. There are age-old recipes that just WORK!