Painting vs Drawing: Which Should You Learn First?
Drawing teaches you to see. Painting teaches you to build. Here is how to choose where to start, and why the order matters less than you think.
Mixing Paint Is About Proportions: The One Skill Behind Every Color
Why your mixes go wrong, and the simple habit that fixes most of them.
How Long Does It Take to Learn to Paint?
An honest answer, evening by evening, from a teacher who watches beginners learn.
Bringing a Painting Workshop to Your University
A visiting painting workshop where the artist brings everything, and the students leave with real work.
Painting for the First Time After 60: What Seniors Actually Experience in a Workshop
No experience, no supplies, and no drawing test. Just a finished painting at the end.
How to Know When a Painting Is Finished
The question every painter fights, in the studio and in class.
How to Choose a Painting Class in Dallas: What Actually Matters
Listings for painting classes in Dallas all sound the same. These are the differences that actually decide whether you learn to paint.
Your First Painting Class: What Actually Happens
A calm walkthrough of the first evening, for adults who have not touched a brush in years.
Art Classes for Adults in Richardson: Start Painting After Work
Evening painting classes for grown-ups with jobs, families, and exactly zero experience.
Acrylic vs Watercolor: Which Class Should You Take First?
A straight comparison from a teacher who runs both classes every week, and an honest way to decide.
Painting Workshops for Seniors in Dallas: Art That Comes to You
On-site 90-minute painting sessions for senior communities, with every material provided and a finished painting to take back to your room.
How to Paint Skin Tones That Look Real
The system I teach in class: three values for every skin type, and the small set of colors behind them.
Kids Art Classes in Richardson, TX: Benefits and How to Choose
A Dallas-area parent's guide to what art does for children, what quality programs actually teach, and how to pick the right class for your child.
Experience Gifts in Dallas: Why an Art Class Gift Card Beats Another Gadget
A $300 Art Be You gift card gives someone you love four weeks of painting classes in Dallas, and a gift they will actually remember.
Watercolor Painting Classes in Dallas: A Beginner’s Guide
Everything a first-time painter needs to know before picking up a brush, from a working Dallas instructor.
Acrylic Painting for Beginners in Dallas: What to Expect at Your First Class
A friendly, no-pressure guide to starting acrylic painting, from your first brushstroke to your first finished canvas.
Team Building Painting Events in Dallas: The Complete Guide for HR Managers
What Dallas HR managers need to know about planning a 90-minute team painting event, from timeline to booking.
How Do You Build a Complete Painting From Scratch in Just Three Hours?
A look inside my Richardson studio this week, where my students tackled monochromatic acrylics, transparent watercolors, and the challenge of observation. Welcome back to the Art Be You blog. It…
Why Can You Become a Better Painter by Using a Limited Watercolor Palette?
Stop Guessing and Start Building Control Over Your Colors Last Thursday in our watercolor class, we sat down in the studio and faced the blank paper. Instead of overwhelming the…
A Recap of the Valentine’s “Paint Your Date” Experience at Art Be You
In the heart of Richardson, Texas, tucked away from the neon-lit rush of Arapaho Road, something quiet and profound happened this past Valentine’s weekend. As an artist who has spent…
How 2025 Redefined What It Means to Be a Professional Artist in 2026
For most of my career, I operated under a very specific, traditional definition of success. The script was simple, or so I was told in art school: You go to…