Dianne's books and COURSES
THE ART OF NOTAN
When getting ready to paint, the most important question any painter can ask is this: " What is the light doing?"
Take this journey with Dianne Mize as she guides you through recognizing different kinds of lights and shadows and observing and painting their behavior. Dianne introduces you to the ancient concept of notan and how today’s artists can use it to discover and interpret lights and shadows in their paintings. She explains the anatomy of light and shadows, showing how variations in values visible to our eyes result from their anatomies.
She illustrates how to construct a notan based on the light source's activity and demonstrates a method for mixing colors that express that behavior using the notan pattern as a guide.
Whether you are an advanced painter, a beginner, or somewhere in between, whether your medium is oils, acrylics, watercolor, pastels, gouache, or colored pencil, Dianne Mize’s method for teaching the notan concept as a way to interpret lights and shadows can give you the freedom to express them creatively in your paintings.
, Finding Freedom to Create
Travel with Dianne Mize as she takes you on a journey to your inner artist and guides you with practical ways to set aside struggle and enjoy being the creative individual that you know you are. Mize inserts tutorials and brain teasers among philosophical ideals and psychological certainties as she compares the processes in the visual arts with music and shows parallels in an array of pursuits using examples from Mozart to Danica Patrick. She explores in depth how the composing principles artists use are direct reflections of a healthy human psychology as well as the organizing energy that keeps nature and the universe working. Whether you are just beginning or already proficient as an artist, Finding Freedom to Create provides an enlightening guide to help you find confidence in your inner voice and tap into solid resources that can aid you on the way to artistic wholeness.
In Praise of Mountain Waters
A collection of Dianne's paintings of creeks, rivers, waterfalls and lakes near her north Georgia home.
