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Introducing Morning Breath :: New Pastel Art Work

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This new piece of art is a perfect emblem of a January morning (with a December sky). I am not, by nature, an early riser. However, I can, when needed, get up at the crack of dawn, without a frown or complain. [...]

Art Activity for Kids: The gift of birds

This simple children’s art project uses recycled products to teach children about birds.

Introducing Shadow Selves :: New Pastel Art Work

Wimpy, full of pink, and lacking in character is exactly how this canvas art piece started. There is a beautiful magazine clipping that I’ve had for years – tropical pink background, soft creamy pink bowl, filled with exotic purple, pink, and yellow flowers. That was the inspiration, the starting point for this mixed media canvas. [...]

Saturday Sketchbook: “Round Peg”

The first drawing of the year brings me back to my initial love: child art! This pastel art work was all about the possibility of childhood and the daring view of seeing the world for the first time, with all it’s possibilities, regardless of the initial surroundings.

From initial quick sketch…to something more substantial…

to a more [...]

Saturday Sketchbook: “Sharing”

First step: Practice sketch and color scheme.
Final drawing being colored in.

“Sharing” :: 12×12″ pastel pencil on textured paper. 2009 Pia f. Walker

The Business of Art Products

Why is art product creation important to an artist?

Planning Art Themes: A Year of Drawings

Although I produce 40 pieces of art each year, I am eagerly looking forward to a year full of planned art themes. Why?

Art Series: Abstract in Reality

Artist Pia f. Walker works on a new art series that takes the abstract all around us and ties them into our everyday reality.

To Dare :: Drawing by Pia f. Walker

This drawing is an attribute to facing a fear, and either slowly overcoming it or simply jumping in and letting it go.

The Intimate Process of Creating Art

The importance or necessity of keeping an artist journal
I have been dutifully reading Willem de Kooning’s biography during the last couple of weeks. Although I’m a fast reader, there are a couple of items against me: the book is a staggering 500+ pages long (the only other big book I’ve read is Atlas Shrugged and [...]