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Today I want to provide you with an encouraging perspective as to why painting accurately can be SO HARD, and talk a bit about the process of improving over time.
Painting Should Be Hard!
When you really think about it, the act of accurately putting to paper what you see is incredibly impressive!
Being able to portray a 3d object / scene in a believable, realistic or even INTERESTING manner is an amazing achievement!
With that in mind – of course painting should be hard!
Any small success should be greatly celebrated.
One of my favorite things about painting is that I may mess up 80% of the painting, but there’s a 20% I was able to REALLY nail down!
And that’s part of it.
The Learning Curve
Improving in painting is a long process. It’s not something that happens in months, but rather in years.
You can see great improvement within months, but true understanding and competence usually take longer (if you’re an anomaly – congrats!).
Here are some of the stages in my experience:
- Learning the basic techniques and control of the medium
- Learning to see things as accurately and cleanly as possible.
- Learning to go beyond what you see verbatim, and make every subject YOUR personal impression of it.
That last stage in the list is where I’m currently striving to be.
It’s about turning the painting process into an interaction between you and the painting subject.
And that wraps up today’s episode!
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