How to Decorate a Pumpkin With Markers: One Design, Start to Finish
Most pumpkin decorating guides tell you what to buy and then leave you standing there holding a pen. This one is the opposite. It walks through how to decorate a pumpkin with markers as an actual...
The first pumpkin I ever decorated with markers looked incredible for about four hours. I'd drawn a whole constellation across it with a set of regular felt tips, thin white stars over the orange,...
How to Keep Permanent Marker on Plastic (And Make It Actually Last)
I labeled an entire set of storage bins with a Sharpie once. Neat, clear, color-coded. Looked great. Two weeks later - gone. Not faded. Gone. The plastic looked like I'd never touched it. That's...
There's a quiet fear that keeps a lot of talented people from ever taking their art seriously. It sounds like this: "I never went to art school, so am I even allowed to call myself an artist?" I felt...
I Spent $300 on Art Markers – Here’s What Was Actually Worth It
I didn't set out to spend $300 on markers. That's the thing about art supplies. It happens in twenty and forty dollar increments over a couple of years, and then one afternoon you're organizing your...
The Best Erasers for Artists (And Why I Was Wrong About Kneaded)
For years I believed a lie. Not a malicious one, just the thing everyone tells beginners: get a kneaded eraser, it's the artist's eraser. So I bought one, kept it in my pencil case like a badge,...
