Art Blog for The Inspiration Place

Ever hear about the 21 SECRETS art journal workshop? Well, you can learn fun and inspiring approach to learning art journaling techniques and methods from me along with a team of 20 other diverse teachers in one class! {some of my favorite teachers on the list include Juliette Crane and Nat Kalbach}

Even if you don't keep an art journal, you can use these techniques in all your mixed media art...

Last week, I had the chance to spend the day at Create New Jersey which was an all day class hosted by the magazine Cloth Paper Scissors. Many of the artists who contribute to the magazine were teaching as well as some other popular artists. The "retreat" is hosted in a hotel, this one in Somerset New Jersey.

 

Disneyland for crafty adults

I had tried one of these retreats in the past and from...

Want a sneak peek at my new online watercolor class? This little short trailer gives you an inside look at my online class.



So, I have been procrastinating creating this video. Why? Well, I am a one-man show. I have to act, direct, film and edit my own video. For this trailer, I actually wrote a script! So that makes me a script writer too. For my online classesI am my own graphic designer and...

Focus on your own progress and praise others on theirs!
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt

Butterfly art by SchulmanArt

In my weekly art classesI always like to end each class with a "group discussion" I used to call these critiques, but now I call them discussions. I want to encourage the students to praise each other and find the good things in each others art. That doesn't mean that I won't make the...