Spring is here and so is CP Magic March 2025! Let’s take a look at what’s inside.
What’s in CP Magic March 2025
Becky Eileen interview
Colored Pencil on Wood: A Tutorial by Kim Vlahovich
Adjusting Your Artistic Mindset
Dealing with End of Project Blues
The Final Pencil Stroke: Setting Art Priorities
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Featured Artist: Becky Eileen
Interview
Becky Eileen, CPSA, is an award-winning artist with an affinity for the plants and wildlife of the Desert Southwestern region of the United States. She has lived and traveled in different Southwestern states for over 33 years. Her artwork reflects the brilliant colors and sometimes complex patterns of nature among which she’s lived much of her life.
But her artistic journey has not always been as bright as her artwork. If you’ve struggled with pain or other hardships in your art journey, Becky’s story will give you hope, encouragement and possibly a few new tools to help you.
Colored Pencil on Wood: A Tutorial
Kim Vlahovich
Canadian artist Kim Vlahovich provides a fun tutorial that combines fine art and utility. He shows you how he made is own brush box using colored pencils to decorate the lid of a wood box. Bonus! His tutorial can also help you make great gifts for family members, friends, and others.
Also in CP Magic March 2025
Changing Your Artistic Mindset
Kim Vlahovich
You’ve no doubt had art projects that didn’t turn out the way you anticipated. Nothing can be more frustrating than to begin a project with high hopes and excitement, only to have it go down in flames.
Kim gives us valuable tips on not only coping with such unmet expectations, but in avoiding crash-and-burn moments in the first place.
Dealing with End of Project Blues
Carrie L. Lewis
Nothing can be more thrilling than finishing a large or complex art piece. The sense of success is invigorating.
But then comes the moment of indecision. What do you do next? How do you possibly followup on that success with another piece? What if it doesn’t turn out as well?
Carrie calls these moments the End of Project Blues, and shares from personal experience a few tips on getting past them. Or, better yet, preventing them altogether!
The Final Pencil Stroke: Setting Art Priorities
What do you do when you have so many things to do that it’s difficult to decide when to do what?
This month’s Final Pencil Stroke is a suggestion for prioritizing the art projects in your life so that you’re as productive as you can be, without becoming overwhelmed.
