Dianne Mize Studio

Tips and ideas for composing paintings and drawings

How a Single Image Can Change

Published: Sat, 02/20/21

Dear, Sometimes artists will grab images from different scenes and use them to create a single painting. That's one way of creating a composition, but…

Losing Edges Effectively

Published: Sat, 02/13/21

Dear, What is a lost edge anyway? Furthermore, why bother to lose edges? A lost edge is a portion of a shape's boundary that disappears into it's…

Date Correction for YouTube Chat

Published: Fri, 02/12/21

On behalf of our team, I apologize that I boobooed on Dianne's ne t YouTube Live Chat date. It is February 21, not January. Hope I haven't created too…

Become a Studio Insider

Published: Fri, 02/12/21

Happy Friday Everybody, For those of you who haven't yet discovered it, we now have Membership available on our YouTube Channel. Members are called…

Photo for the Sargent Warm/Cool Exercise

Published: Sat, 02/06/21

Dear, Oops! I neglected to include the photo for your Try This e ercise. Here it is: Have fun with this! You can access the archive of all my…

Looking at Sargents Use of Warms and Cools

Published: Sat, 02/06/21

Here's another recycled post from three years ago. Dear, Take away the fashions of the era. Subtract out the staging and posed stiffness of his…

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