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Hi there! Today I want to talk to you about depth in creation.
Two Ways to Paint – Different Levels of Depth
After painting for 4+ years, I slowly came to realize that there are two main ways to paint.
This is my personal experience. Yours may be different. But here’s what I noticed.
1. Slow and Detailed.
This is when you really take your time and paint slowly. You may take a break and revisit the painting later. You carefully observe it and make changes, corrections and tweaks.
This approach really improves your ability to create highly polished, finalized pieces.
2. Fast and Spontaneous.
This is a quicker way of creating. It allows you to put emphasis on different aspects, and higher level pillars of good creation.
This approach allows you to work on the basics – composition, arrangement, values, color, edges and so on.
It also allows you to gain experience and insight in these areas fairly quickly, as you can produce many quick and small paintings.
Alternating the Depth
One of the things that helped me the most when it comes to improving over the long haul, is alternating between those two methods.
I would argue that this helped me to improve FASTER as well.
Here’s what I would do.
I would create a few very detailed paintings. These may take several days.
Then I would feel artistically exhausted. I finally figured out the solution was to switch gears and do the quicker sketches.
So I did a bit of those. Until the next day I felt like doing another detailed painting.
And so on (:
Conclusion
I think it’s beneficial to recognize YOUR OWN cycle, and do the things that will allow you to continuously move forward in your creation.
What do you think? Let me know in a comment below.
And with that, we can move on to the artist corner.
Artist Corner
Today I talked about Trevor Chamberlain, an English painter who works in both oils and watercolor.
He had no formal education in art. He got started in oils, and then taught himself watercolor in one year. In his own words, he did that through sheer perseverance and learning from previous masters.
He currently serves on the Council of both the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Here is a gallery with some of his FANTASTIC works – Trevor Chamberlain
And here’s where you can find me
Check out my YouTube Channel – Liron Yanconsky
Or ask me questions on Instagram – @LironYanIL or Snapchat – @LironYan3
I hope you enjoyed this one. Take care, and we’ll talk again really soon,
– Liron