Hello my friend, I have a super easy tip today and it is very low tech…
Most all good and award-winning paintings demonstrate a unique and compelling idea. And your ability to stay the course and complete your painting with that intent in mine is the easiest way to create good paintings.
Read MoreThis painting has everything I love to paint, beautiful flowers, a jade ginger jar, and blue willow plates. When putting this painting together, I kept thinking about a quiet evening at home.
Read MoreIf you love the old masters paintings and strive to paint like them.
Read MoreBy nature, I am an obsessive note taker. I have piles of “idea-sketchbooks” and every so often I will pull out an old one and read through my notes.
Recently I was reading through an idea-sketchbook from January 2013 and I came across my notes from a Daniel Sprick workshop I took at Studio Incamminati. I want to share some notes I wrote down during the workshop describing Daniel’s methodology and thought process.
Read More“Expression implies emphasis and selection”
I am not sure where I first came across this quote, however I had it posted in my studio for several years to remind me daily of this idea. To me the idea that “expression implies emphasis and selection” is what the creative process is all about.
In order to synthesize my experience into a work of art, I need to investigate it and then choose how I will express my interpretation of the scene.
Read MoreWhen I first started painting with oil in late 2006, I struggled to understand and apply everything about the medium all at once, but when I switched my mindset from having to focus on everything all together to narrowing my attention to mastering one fundamental of painting at a time, things really began to take off for me.
Before that time, each painting experience had the potential of becoming emotionally discouraging and also a disaster in outcome, you know, making a bunch of mud. And in the beginning, the time I had to devote to learning to paint was precious, because I was still working as a full-time architect.
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