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So, if you have any doubts about lessons that seem complicated to you or seem determined to make you fail, take a look at the following and see if you can see good sense…
Understandably, when you see sales promises for an art course that appear ambitious you have doubts that they can be true. So here are some words that will hopefully give you more confidence in looking for a simpler approach to learning.
In fact it will take you longer to prepare the paper, brush, glass of water and watercolor paint than to actually paint. Yes, the painting itself might take longer to dry than an hour but your involvement with it should take a fraction of that time…
“That is, unless you choose to make adjustments during the drying process – the kind of decision all artists choose to make”
As you progress through the simplest kind of painting and drawing course you will find that all of the trial paintings should take no more than a few minutes to do. Where you really learn how to paint is by carefully studying the transformations that occur during the drying time (which could take as long as a day).
If you learn nothing else, it is that the old lie, “It is as boring as watching paint dry”, does not apply to the work of an artist. The reason is precisely because this, particularly when using watercolors, is where the ‘magic’ of painting comes from.
“If you are prepared to watch the subtle changes as they happen you cannot fail to learn about the art medium by quesioning what is happening as it happens right there before your eyes”
It is from the minor and major masterpieces generated by an artist that promotes success, whether it be from sales of art or from the influence given to others who don’t yet realize that…
It is the drying time of watercolors that gives them their strength. It is the reason why beginners should use them. The reason why so many fail to master them is because they never allow watercolor paints to show them how most of the hard work is done by the paints themselves. An over-keen novice painter who just doesn’t understand overworks what should be left alone.
So, in short, follow the simplest and easiest of painting and drawing lessons and try them out for yourself…
Better still, keep in mind that you can paint the 5, 10, 20 simple versions, experimenting with minor or major variations in little or no more than an hour…
“Indeed, by doing several paintings at the same time this is where you learn fastest of all because you will not have time to interfere with natural drying processes”
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