alison joy bishop

This week's video is about adding value to your cat drawing. Value defines the lights and darks of an image. You can use one pencil or many pencils to add a ...

A little over a week ago, I received a viewer's request to demonstrate how to draw a cat. Thank you! I love hearing from my viewers! I decided to show how to...

Happy Favorite Friday! One of my favorite things to do is to make a special card for someone I love. As a kid, I didn't have a job, so the best gift I could ...

It is a Favorite Friday, and seeing what you create is an absolute favorite of mine. Thank you for sharing your images! Seeing and enjoying others work is an...

For this week's creative project, I have a request. Albert Einstein said, "Creativity is contagious, pass it on." I agree. So, in the spirit of passing on cr...

Happy Favorite Friday! One of my favorite flowers to draw is a Plumeria. These flowers make me smile:) I have a Plumeria tree in my front yard, and I love it...

Dragons are cool creatures that inspire one's imagination! Project #10 transforms a folded paper bird into an adventurous dragon. Before you start to fold, t...

Today is tax day, April 15th. As a child, I can recall having many different boxes or cups to serve as personal banks for saving treasured loose change or ea...

When I started making daily creative posts to share during the COVID-19 stay-at-home restriction, I was determined to post a new video each day. After the fi...

Today's project was inspired by one of my regular art students, Ryken. Ryken loves to draw cars! When he has a moment to free draw, he is designing a car usu...

With the Easter weekend beginning tomorrow, today's project will be the final one this week. So, I thought it would be fun to kick off the holiday drawing so...

Honu drawings are so much fun to do! Honu is the Hawaiian word for a sea turtle. Once while snorkeling at Haunama Bay, a honu surprised my daughter; she tota...

Art is a wonderful way to explore the beauty of nature. With April being Earth month, I thought we could venture into the ocean for projects #5 and #6. One o...

Today's project is all about seeing. In drawing, seeing is the most important skill to develop. If you can see it, you can draw it. Taking time to build skil...

Fridays are for celebrating our favorite things. Today is a line drawing of your favorite shoes. My favorite shoes are my Old Skool Black Vans. They are stur...

My first encounter with origami was when I was about 10 years old. My family and I lived on 10 acres of land on the outskirts of a Texan town, not too far fr...

Aloha! We may be staying at home to thwart the spread of COVID-19, but that can't stop us from being creative! Making things makes me happy, especially in li...

For the past 3 years, I have dabbled in set design and prop creation for the annual production of the Children’s Theater of Oahu, where my daughter has been ...

On Saturday, October 26th, children ages six and up have the opportunity to participate in an EPIC Art day camp, "Hanging With Calder," in Waipio, centrally ...