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- do not saddle you with any one technique, but give you instructions to become proficient in any type of pigment. Many struggling artists make the mistake of thinking, "If I can just master this or that technique, I'll be successful at painting." They completely neglect to learn how to create a work of art. Techniques evolve from learning to create. They do not come first.
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- During workshops, questions like the following are explored constantly. What makes a first rate artist ? For that matter, what is an artist? What is ART? What makes a painting GOOD ART? It isn't easy to answer those questions. That's a monumental understatement, isn't it? Here is my attempt at an answer. A picture happens when someone produces it with paint and brushes, or pen and ink, or a camera, etc. A painting becomes a work of ART when one artist creates it and that artist's dynamic thought, imagination, and soul become visible in that painting. MEMORIZE THAT! Along with learning basic painting in these five days, let's make certain your artist's soul shines through.
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- They say each life contains a novel. To paraphrase, let's say each artist contains at least one great painting and probably many. I've found my teaching job is NOT to teach the struggling artist how to paint but to help the artist bring out what is inside that creates art. That art can be realistic or abstract. The same rules apply to each kind of painting and are not unlike the rules for producing a novel. Both a novel and a painting make one aware of something about the world.
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- Are you thinking you can't learn all this in five days?
- You can. The exercises in this book will teach you to express yourself whether you are just beginning or just in a struggling period.
- This book proceeds through a plan of study as though you were in a live workshop.
- Your first job is to convince yourself that you ARE an artist because you WANT TO BE ONE.
- You have just as much right to "speak" through your own kind of art as any well known artist does.
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