by Mindy Lighthipe | Animal Rescue, How-To, Online Art Classes, Photoshop, Uncategorized, Workshops
How a Rescue Cat Named King Arthur Changed My Life—and Sparked My Greeting Card Journey For more than 25 years, I’ve been deeply involved in animal rescue—especially with cats. My love of cats goes all the way back to childhood and has only grown stronger with time....
by Mindy Lighthipe | Business Practices for Artists, How-To, Online Art Classes, Photoshop
Photoshop Elements for Artists: A Live Zoom Workshop to Help You Scan, Clean, and Reproduce Your Artwork with Confidence As an artist, your focus should be on creating—not getting bogged down by tech tools that feel like a foreign language. If you’ve ever felt...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Art For Conservation, Bird Art, How-To, Workshops
From Colombia to the Studio: A New 4-Week Hummingbird Art Class This past November, I was incredibly fortunate to travel to Colombia to explore a potential new destination for future traveling art workshops. I went with curiosity—and came home completely inspired....
by Mindy Lighthipe | How-To, Insect Art, Online Art Classes
💀 Draw the Death’s-head Hawkmoth: Art, Anatomy & Myth Collide Few insects in the world inspire as much fascination as the mysterious Death’s-head Hawkmoth. Known for the eerie skull-shaped marking on its thorax, this species—Acherontia lachesis, A. atropos, and A....
by Mindy Lighthipe | Botanical Art, Colored Pencil, How-To, Scientific Illustration, Workshops
Fall Harvest Drawing & Painting Workshop at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens September 22–26 | 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. All Levels Welcome | Ages 14+ Autumn is a spectacular time for artists, and what better way to capture the season than with a week-long fall art...
by Mindy Lighthipe | Digital Photography, How-To, Light on Form
Does your art work create enough form? Are there light, medium and dark values within the drawings and color renderings you are working on? Often the answer is no. As artists we have so many things to think about simultaneously. Color, texture, perspective, surface...
