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  • What is an artist skills gap?

    What is a skills gap in art?

    GOING THE DISTANCE IN ART Ever heard of a “skills gap?” A skills gap is the distance between the art you actually make and your taste in art. It’s mostly psychological, and can be the reason why artists are stereotyped as being the harshest critics of their own work. When you loooove hyperrealism and want to make artwork that looks ultra detailed, but you can only manage to draw basic outlines of a person and a few wrinkles around their eyes, you may be disappointed with your work. It doesn’t look how you want it to. Not because you don’t have the vision, the taste, the style — but because…

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Carolyn Tantanella is a Michigan artist who paints the mystical, natural, and fantastical. She specializes in watercolor and digital illustration but could be equally called a poet or a teacher. Carolyn founded A Cup of Cloudy to help artsy types express, create and decorate in a way that fits them.

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