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It's always worth keeping in mind that there are so many styles of paintings, my style does lend itself to a sort of 'mass production' being of the loose variety and adopting a somewhat 'gung-ho' approach. More detailed work such as the excellent work produced by say Anthony is of course a different matter and each piece will take weeks I expect.
Luckily we do all paint differently but what matters is that we enjoy our work, the quantity that we produce is quite irrelevant.
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I know this post is a month out of date but I hade to comment on it..
I have produced or should I say generated over the last 10 years well over 300 paintings and about twenty drawings purely as drawings. Most of my painting is watercolour but I have had a go at acrylic and recently water soluble oils but they take too long to dry. I do prefer watercolours as they are quick and easy and dry fast, I have been known to do three in a day but on the other hand have had bad periods of up to three months painting nothing. I find that I paint when I feel like it and it is best not to try forcing ones self, if you wake up in the morning particularly as I do between 4 and 5 and feel like painting just do it - a good reason to leave all your equipment laid out and not put away in draws and cupboards - out of sight out of mind. Ho and please don't think you have to aim at a master piece each time you should be painting for yourself and for your own pleasure and if others like them that's a bonus. As for what to paint - anything.... and keep failures to look back on and see how you have improved.
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I suppose it depends how big your painting is paintk. Mine take me quite a long time to do but some of our colleagues on here do like to do lovely quick little paintings and sketches. There's no pressure to produce constantly though, especially if you are a hobbyist. I quite enjoy seeing these lovely little paintings - cheers my day!
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I'm a member on the DailyPaintWorks dot com website and I joined it about three years ago, to try and push myself into doing more work (because I am rather lazy). The popular format on here is quite small, around 6x6 or 8x8 inches (that's 15x15 and 20x20cm). You can get a lot of paintings done by working this size, irrespective of the medium; some folks there have hundreds in their galleries. I've probably done around 50 to 60 pieces this year of varying sizes. Unfortunately most of em are still in the storage box unsold, but I have found that the regular painting (or pastelling) does help with progress. My max size tends to be about 16x12 inches (on rare occasions), I have tried larger but can't get the image to "hold together" somehow.....they just go wrong. Maybe it's just more practise that is needed. Smaller sizes seem to suit me better, and it's also good for the bank balance.
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