Welcome! I’m Carrie Glessner, a watercolor and gouache artist living in northern Vermont. When I was a kid, I was always the one asking “but why?” and basically, I never stopped. That means I’m now a painter with a lot of questions about paint! Luckily, I also love to do research, and I love to write… Sounds like a blog to me!
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Latest Posts:
Making Lemonade Out of AI Lemons – A Guide for For Fine Art Painters, Part II
As you can guess from the title, I’m pretty ambivalent about AI. But since it’s here to stay, we might as well use it if it’s helpful. This is part two of my investigation of the low-hanging fruit of AI use for artists. Part one goes into AI basics and (responsibly) using AI to make…
Making Lemonade Out of AI Lemons – A Guide for Fine Art Painters
We’re all hearing a lot about AI these days – and between stories of doomsday scenarios and billionaire space overlords building data centers on the moon, the technology feels increasingly disconnected from my everyday reality. More futuristic existential threat than a tool which could be used by little ‘ol me. Add in a healthy aversion…
Pigments in Print and Podcast
I’m back from my busy summer – and so is Paint Nerd Blog! As usual, my summer was a little bonkers (in a good way – I’m a summer camp director). My job doesn’t leave me a lot of time for painting (or really anything beside camp) but I do get some reading in at…
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