Sadie's Blog

I used to think meditating meant sitting up straight and still for a certain number of minutes every single day, focusing on my breath...

Artists who work from observation have a basic desire to make something look "right", which means accurately capturing the true shapes...

"If you think about it, in the past before there were cameras, people could go their whole lives without seeing a single image, except...

The pandemic year was one big blur, but one standout event for me was my December 2020 interview with the lovely Symi Jackson of Rosemary...

Recently I gave a Zoom talk to about 150 students at my former high school, Waring School in Beverly, Massachusetts. Waring's main school...

Often you will hear an art teacher telling their students to slow down: Slow. Down. But what does that mean? We always begin a...

Of course, there are no "rules" in painting, but since most beginning painters struggle with similar issues, it can be helpful to stick...

Back in 2003 I didn't know it yet, but I was nearing the end of an almost decade-long artist block. A block that meant I could not bring...

During the Renaissance, young art students were apprenticed to a master instructor who was a professional artist, and they started by...

PART 1: From Student to Professional The transition from art student to professional artist is particularly daunting. For realist artists...

From 2006 - 2016 Sadie maintained a popular blog, where she shared every aspect of her artistic development.