10 Tips for Using Blue to Maximum Effect

10 Tips for Using Blue to Maximum Effect Exploit Blue’s Emotional Baseline Blue is widely experienced as calming, trustworthy, and spacious. Use it as an emotional ground from which other feelings can emerge—rather than as the emotional climax itself. Vary Temperature...

10 Ways that AI can help visual artists

[Please subscribe to Eric Maisel: Thinking Aloud, which brings you a new “Tales of the Creative Life” every Tuesday and a new “The Craft of Coaching with Eric Maisel” every Thursday. You can subscribe for free here.] TEN WAYS THAT AI CAN HELP VISUAL ARTISTS Here are...

10 Tips for Sculptors Working in Marble

Here are ten practical, craft-centered tips for sculptors working in marble, blending technique, workflow, and mindset: Choose the Right Block Look for marble with consistent grain, minimal fissures, and a color suited to your vision. Veining can add drama, but it can...

Top 10 Artist Challenges for 2026

Here are ten of the biggest challenges visual artists (painters, illustrators, digital artists, sculptors, etc.) are likely to face in 2026, based on how trends today seem to be evolving. Several are continuations or intensifications of problems already underway. Top...