Chapter II, Education the Endless Issue
Once we know why we create, the next question is how. If you are a serious painter, you will spend your whole life and request to improve your skills. Every painting is a chance to do better that your last one.
Practical self-education is the key to study improvement. There’s no real shortcut but there are ways to learn that a better and faster than others. Education is about taking a new concept, understanding it and then being able to apply it to your own work.
In my experience, the greatest sleeps forward in gaining new concepts and new understanding had been under the instruction of a more experience artist. A one-on-one intuition is often very hard to come by but the modern equivalent, which is nearly it’s helpful is painting lessons on video. If you find the painter who style you admire who is offering any sort of lesson on video or book, then by all means get a copy of that lesson.
This top of knowledge has been hard one from years of experience and any amount of money you pay for it would be revisited to your hands similarly and in your future success. A tutor of mine once said that, “You can't create anything in the backroom” meaning that the more you prove yourself with knowledge, the more you could spill-out onto the canvas.
I've also had it said that amateur artist borrow from other artist whereas great artist steal. You know, I take that to mean that a great artist can take an idea from any other artist work and use it in a way that it’s so unique that it makes it their own. And to that end just looking at other artist work and figuring out what, how and why they do what they're doing, it can give you some very revealing insights. I’ve been scrolling the internet for years for good painting resources and here's the list of the best that are found so far in that particular order.
www.richardschmid.com, Richard Schmid’s book Alla Prima everything I know about painting is in my opinion the best instructional book in the world concern with representational painting. But I haven’t read them all, so take that as you were. www.virtualartacademy.com, this is Barry John Raybould. His comprehensive painting course is to level via downloaded PDF documents, which are printable. They contain a wealth of practical and insightful information in a very structured and easy to read format. Various goals was to create the equivalent of a three year college or university at program and turn them to a self study course for people who study in their own homes and become better artist.
www.thecardermethod.com, Mark Carder’s video instruction on Still Life Painting is the clearest and most the third demonstration of the representational painting process available as far as I know. It’s very, very exact thing method that he teaches but he teaches all of the basic principles that you will need to begin painting well. Then this wetcanvas.com, this is the largest community for visual artist on internet. It’s a variable gold mind of articles, forums and demonstration covering a multitude of visual arts.
painterskeys.com, subscribe to the Robert Genn twice-weekly letter on all matters concerning art. That’s an email that he pops into inbox twice every week. They are insightful and often entertaining clips into the world of art. That website also contains the largest repository of art related quotes, a huge listing of painter’s studios and retreats around the world, and a collection of free short videos and a massive artist directory.
Theartrepreneur.com, in valuable artist three sources at coaching, financial advice and create all to help artist succeed. Abundancebound.com, Abundance Bound provides financial education and planning to act this artist and creative professionals. Their mission is to develop a community of artist who are able to pursue their creative goals free from the crushing light of financial stress. Through Abundance Bound’s programs, you will learn how to increase your income, pay lease and taxes, put money away, start investing, and lots more.
Cafepress.com, this is an online marketplace that offer sellers complete eCommerce services to independent create and sell a wide variety of products using their own artwork and office buys unique merchandise across virtually every. www.newzealandartist.com, well, I have to include my own website, didn’t I? I've tried to make my master class video painting lessons as helpful and formative as humanly possible and I think that turned out pretty good and so to a lot artist folks but you'll find over 350 paintings and newsletter and a good look at how an artist website should be design.
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