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Lindsey Chester
Feb 283 min read
Art Challenges to Kickstart Your New Year
We are well into the new year, and maybe those new year's resolutions have already been broken. I know I didn't stick to "Dry January and...
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Lindsey Chester
Feb 153 min read
New Year New Challenges
I look forward to the period after the holidays when I can create in my studio from about Dec 24 through the end of February. This...
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Lindsey Chester
Oct 14, 20232 min read
Stocking up for the Holidays
As the days turn to the cool mornings of fall, market vendors like myself, prepare for the holiday market season. I participate in a few...
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Lindsey Chester
Aug 25, 20233 min read
Getting Back to Work After a Pause
Here I am getting back to "When the Party's Over" after 2 months Sometimes I start a work, only to get busy in other aspects of my life,...
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Lindsey Chester
Jun 12, 20233 min read
Solo Show Opens Saturday, June 17!
I am excited to announce that my second solo exhibition of the year opens this Saturday, June 17, 2023 at Artmosphere Community Arts...
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Lindsey Chester
May 19, 20233 min read
Making Memories That Last
I started creating pet portraits when I drew and painted my own fur babies, a series of feline rescues that my family had over the years....
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Lindsey Chester
Jan 2, 20223 min read
Measuring Progress
At the beginning of our lockdown in 2020, I made a "Vision Board" of goals for my art business. I was in a business group and we were all...
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Lindsey Chester
Apr 19, 20212 min read
Being Strong, Seeing Strong
Thank you for following along on my journey to improve my art through practice. I took about a month or so off from this blog space to...
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Lindsey Chester
Feb 15, 20212 min read
Gaining Skills With iMovie
I have been a timid videographer. Somehow the whole process seems deep and dark and mysterious. All these clips and trying to cut out the...
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Lindsey Chester
Jan 31, 20212 min read
Making a Color Wheel And Why You Need One
I have been reading a lot about color theory and color palette options these days. It's been a tremendous help when deciding how I paint...
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Lindsey Chester
Jan 24, 20213 min read
How to Make Skin Tones Easily
For years I had been going about making skin tones all wrong. I would start with a cadmium red, add a little cadmium yellow and then try...
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Lindsey Chester
Jan 17, 20213 min read
Grateful Heart
Five Things I am grateful for this year Here we are in the 3rd week of 2021, and it's already been a crazy start to the year. But you...
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Lindsey Chester
Jan 3, 20213 min read
New Horizons for the New Year
While 2020 pretty much sucked on a social level, it actually rocked on a personal level. Deep down, I actually enjoyed the time I had to...
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Lindsey Chester
Nov 27, 20203 min read
Setting Up My Facebook Shop
I have been looking for an easy way to sell my art online. I have this website for instance. But it mostly functions as a portfolio for...
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Lindsey Chester
Nov 16, 20203 min read
Planning a Mural That Never Got Made
A few weeks back, fellow artist Tina Marcus contacted me about a mural project she had heard about in the nearby town of Holly Springs,...
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Lindsey Chester
Oct 18, 20202 min read
Stretching My Limits
This week was one for expanding my limits and learning new things. My art typically involves drawing or painting things I can see....
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