If you're wanting to do a painting a day but are stuck for ideas, here are 31 suggestions to keep you busy for the whole month.
How much information appears on the label of a paint tube (or jar) and where it is on a label varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, but good artist's quality paints will typically list some very useful info.
This week's painting tip is from Patti Vas Dias and is about the colors to use to paint ginger hair or fur. Read this week's painting tip...| Is inherent artistic inclination ("talent") or the ability to work hard ("persistence") more valuable to a painter in the long term? Does having things such as perspective or color observation come easily to you make it more likely you'll finish a painting, or does it mean you'll give up more quickly when something goes wrong because you're not accustomed to having to work for results? I believe we have a degree of inherent aptitude for certain things, but if you don't use it consistently, it has no value. Passion for something makes it far more rewarding than being good at it, and more likely you'll keep striving to be better. We tend to undervalue and neglect what comes easily. American artist Winslow Homer put it thus: "What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.”See Also: • The Talent Myth • Art is Not About Talent • Artist's Quotes: Talent Image: © 2009 Marion Boddy-Evans. Licensed to About.com, Inc |
How do you decide if a new paint brand is going to be decent and likely to be money well spent? The ultimate test is, obviously, to try it, but there are various things I use to judge an unknown paint brand and decide whether or not I'll buy a tube. Then I select a color I use a lot so I can compare it to what I'm used to using. Read more about assessing a new brand of oil or acrylic paint...
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