Comments on: How To Paint: People http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:36:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: admin http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/#comment-1153 admin Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:07:33 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/#comment-1153 Fifi, be spontaneous! Arranging palettes just robs you of valuable painting time- you can add the colors to the palette as you need them. I find when I get overly prepared my paintings end up looking laborious and academic. Painting should never be a chore. Save the hard core brush cleaning until the very end. Just keep some odorless thinner nearby when going from color to color- you won't get every last bit out of the brush, so don't worry. (I saw a video of an artist who never cleaned her brushes- ever!) And yes, some people treat painting as a technical science, but it really isn't- there are only suggestions and recommendations. Some of the finest art has come out of innovation and improvisation. Make your paintings however you want. Fifi, be spontaneous! Arranging palettes just robs you of valuable painting time- you can add the colors to the palette as you need them. I find when I get overly prepared my paintings end up looking laborious and academic. Painting should never be a chore.

Save the hard core brush cleaning until the very end. Just keep some odorless thinner nearby when going from color to color- you won’t get every last bit out of the brush, so don’t worry. (I saw a video of an artist who never cleaned her brushes- ever!)

And yes, some people treat painting as a technical science, but it really isn’t- there are only suggestions and recommendations. Some of the finest art has come out of innovation and improvisation. Make your paintings however you want.

]]> By: fifi http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/#comment-1150 fifi Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:18:38 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/#comment-1150 at last! the coded secret world of painting people is shared with everyday folk instead of being elevated into a mystic scientific language that keeps art separate from the masses. My visual arts degree is worthless because I still don't know how to paint and thats due to lecturers keeping the secret code of oil painting to themselves. Great article...look forward to more. I'm still getting in a mess with paint, arranging a palette, cleaning my brushes, using mediums (what the f is poppy oil?!) etc. Do I work on all the bits that are one colour then clean the brushes or dance around on the bits I fancy which means more cleaning...oil painting doesn't seem, so far, to be a spontaneous artform. at last! the coded secret world of painting people is shared with everyday folk instead of being elevated into a mystic scientific language that keeps art separate from the masses.

My visual arts degree is worthless because I still don’t know how to paint and thats due to lecturers keeping the secret code of oil painting to themselves.

Great article…look forward to more. I’m still getting in a mess with paint, arranging a palette, cleaning my brushes, using mediums (what the f is poppy oil?!) etc. Do I work on all the bits that are one colour then clean the brushes or dance around on the bits I fancy which means more cleaning…oil painting doesn’t seem, so far, to be a spontaneous artform.

]]> By: Brian http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/#comment-110 Brian Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:16:57 +0000 http://www.vincesear.com/how-to-paint-people/#comment-110 Good stuff! Good stuff!

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