My painting teacher, Jim Faber, used to say: “paint what you see, not what you THINK you see! It’s a call to observation. Instead of assuming that the sky is blue and the leaves are green, take a look. How does the light affect the colors? What are we taking for granted? What have weContinue reading “Axiom #3 Paint What You See”
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Boundaries and Grids of Life
A common exercise to help train the artist’s eye is to enlarge the image of a photograph by using a grid method wherein a picture is sectioned off. A corresponding larger piece of art paper or canvas is similarly sectioned off in proportion, simply larger. Then the student-artist concentrates on one square at a timeContinue reading “Boundaries and Grids of Life”
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