Yearly Archives: 2010

Cheap Joe’s is in the house, the Jones House, that is! The Cheap Joe Gallery Show at the Jones House in Boone, NC, is open from November 26- December 23.  “Cheap” Joe Miller himself was invited by the Jones House Staff to host his ...

On the phones, we might hear that question a time or two a day. “What’s that quin color?” “How do you say that?” “What are they good for?” We all smile, knowing we had the same questions and trouble pronouncing ...

Every year at this time, Cheap Joe’s hosts the annual Halloween Breakfast. In years past, we all dressed up for a costume contest. You’d be surprised how difficult it is to encourage adults to play dress up! This year, however, we had a pumpkin ...

Fall is a wonderful season where the weather as well as the temperature is very unpredictable and exciting. The leaves are bursting with color, every moment is different. The slightest change in the temperature can make the reds brighter or the yellows ...

As students, we are all greatly influenced by our teachers, mentors, and those we ultimately admire. These people are somewhat the reason we started painting in the first place, right? We looked at their art and saw something appealing that drew us in ...

Ever thought about sharing what you know about art or painting with a group who has never thought about art or has never painted? How do you ever convey the excitement and passion that overflows from inside your existence! I have been involved in some ...

Shhhhhh…Be vewy, vewy, quiet…. I’m hunting wookshops!… Heh, heh, heh,..’cause it’s workshop season here at Cheap Joe’s and boy, do we have a star line up. Top names in water media and other mediums are visiting from all around the country as Joe has in ...

Value studies seem to be the one necessary evil, in creating a painting, that no one really wants to take time for. Why is that? Even though they are great accomplishments, they’re really not the kind of thing we brag to our painting friends about. ...

With winter weather persistently holding on, some days can be more difficult than others to travel back and forth to work. Just last week, we had so much snow paired with high winds, that not one but two days out of the week I ended up stranded in 4-5 ...

Artists are always looking for easy ways to solve common problems when it comes to creating art. Tools of the trade are clever gadgets that are constantly being developed to ease the design chores and allow artists to get down to the business of painting. ...