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Floral Typography Using Affinity Designer for iPad
Learn how to create beautiful floral typography, right on your iPad, using Affinity Designer and the mask and reveal methods taught by Skillshare teacher and Chicago area artist Tracey Capone.
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Embracing my Inner Space Nerd
When I was in third grade, I had was totally, madly, deeply in love (in so far as a third grader could understand the concept) with a boy who sat next to me. I was shy though. I don’t mean shy in that, “blushes when someone looks in her direction” sort of way. I mean “so shy I couldn’t speak.” So, while I had known him since first grade, I still couldn’t bring myself to talk with him the way I wanted… so I mustered my most artistic abilities and did the next best thing. I embraced my Inner Space Nerd. You see, he loved to draw space pictures… intricate…
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Textural Floral Illustration on Affinity Designer for iPad
Learn how to create beautiful, organic textural flowers and leaves using Affinity Designer for iPad. Take a look at a new Skillshare course by teacher and Chicago area artist Tracey Capone.
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Life of an Artist | Competition vs. Comparison (and Robbing Yourself of Joy)
A blog post, by Chicago artist Tracey Capone, about comparing ourselves to other artists and how it robs us of the joy of our own achievements.
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Life of an Artist | Pause and Redirect
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso I have been avoiding this blog like the Plague because I wasn’t happy with the direction it was going in. I didn’t want it to be just another photography blog where I throw a bunch of my photographs out there, tell you the motivation behind them and then move on to the next post. While there is nothing wrong with that, there are so many photography blogs out there already and, honestly, my interests and passions as an artist go well beyond photography. Recently, I rebranded from Tracey…