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Posts covering general topics related to painting — ideas, insights, and practical guidance for developing your artistic skills.
A student of the Academy of Fine Arts looked at the painter’s works and said: — Yes, he might have noticed that birds in autumn fly in spiral-like circles and thought: “That’s quite a brush!” You can see it clearly…
Composition in Painting or Harmony in Sound? It depends on the kind of talent we have in mind — visual or musical. In both cases, it’s about the simultaneity of many qualities. In painting: colour, shape, and line. In music:…
How long can one minute last—at the moment when you’re convinced it has already passed? A follow-up question, refining the first, must concern a moment of mental darkness—a situation in which such a feeling might arise. The answer is familiar…
Painting courses that protect talent from imitation Painting and drawing courses that explain everything do not lead down the path toward creating works that might one day be considered true art. But my courses do — they follow that path.…
“Could you paint a portrait of my wife?” Sometimes you might also hear, “Please paint the view from this window in summer,” or, “Could you paint a part of this city? I’d like to remember my stay here — it…
It’s important to recognize and distinguish between two concepts: syncretism and paranoia. These represent serious traps — and they appear in the visual arts as well. Syncretism is the more dangerous of the two. Paranoia may involve delusions, but it…