Sunday, October 31, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Painting Techniques
Thinking about technique in this way:
Suggestion: what if the fruition of technique is confidence? Meaning gaining skill builds one's confidence. Making a collection of skills for skills sake runs the risk of the skills determining the painting, rather than the painting determining what skills or techniques are necessary to bring it to completion. If painters develop confidence in their general level of technical skill, then they are able to improvise technically on the spot–whatever is required by the painting. You've heard the saying, perhaps, that every good idea eventually becomes a business and every business eventually becomes a racket. So with painting techniques.
Isn't technique a beautiful word, with its ch & q?
Suggestion: what if the fruition of technique is confidence? Meaning gaining skill builds one's confidence. Making a collection of skills for skills sake runs the risk of the skills determining the painting, rather than the painting determining what skills or techniques are necessary to bring it to completion. If painters develop confidence in their general level of technical skill, then they are able to improvise technically on the spot–whatever is required by the painting. You've heard the saying, perhaps, that every good idea eventually becomes a business and every business eventually becomes a racket. So with painting techniques.
Isn't technique a beautiful word, with its ch & q?
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