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What was your light-bulb moment?
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Interesting advice there - not easy to do, though I can see the value of working over your whole painting and not waiting while parts dry: precious few watercolourists I've know would work that way: it'd take a lot of nerve!
Do you know where I could see some of John Christian's work, and better still any demonstrations of his doing it?
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A very exciting topic:) my big light bulb a few months ago was an artist who said: for me, the most important rule in watercolor painting is, that there are no rules. to understand them in their entirety, you would haveto hear them yourself.
Another Light Bulb was my father (a painter by profession), who often used to say about painting: the minimum IS the maximum. So when i said to myself: give EVERYTHING - he said: give as little as possible :) I'm still practicing..... 😅
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For me, it was the discovery that different colours have different properties; that probably sounds very dull, but learning that some are transparent, some opaque, some permanent, others not, some granulating etc has really helped me to improve (I think!) I wish I’d known about this years ago.It doesn’t sound dull at all, Emma…and I totally agree with you as a ‘Newbie’ !
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I like to check stock photos and images to find some inspiration. It works for me. Recently I found mirage images on depositphotos. For me it is great sourse of new ideas, plus its stock photo libraries contain an extensive range of images covering diverse subjects, styles, and themes. This vast selection allows me to find the perfect photo that fits my specific needs. Useful site if you need high quality pics.
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Not really sure if it qualifies as a light bulb moment. But I've recently come to find that more opaque colours (Naples yellow, venetian red etc) amplifies the flatness of surfaces, like house walls etc. So I try to keep that in mind when painting/sketching. So more transparent colours for human skin, vegetation etc, and more opaque for things that are flat. Makes it a bit more lively and dynamic when used together. Might not be a universal truth though.
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Totally au-fait with Tanja G's post...... I've never wanted to paint a Sistine Chapel ,ceiling, but I'm still taking great satisfaction from painting less and less to get my result across. It's purely a personal view, but to me a painting has to look like a painting; an expression of the way the artist sees things, or what is art all about? (the age- old question). We also have to not paint to impress others but be satisfied with what we ourselves do. Is a cave painting not an artist's view of with life just as much a personal expression as a Caravagio, Picasso or Canaletto work? End of day you are your own best/worst critic as to what's important. Candles came long before light-bulbs after all. (-:
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