A blog for Whitman College Art 167 containing tips, musings, notes, and discussions on all things painting related and beyond.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
some words about painting
Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.~ Edgar Degas
The less we think about painting, the better; the more we can relax and 'not think' the better the outcome. let's look at our piece of paper or canvas with a child's eye each time we pick up our brush....
Great great quote. But, I think it is not simply that we should paint with a child's eye (though that is a good piece of advice!) I think what Degas meant is that the more you understand about painting, the harder it gets to make really good, really new and fresh paintings. You see the inherent difficulty it presents, the challenge gets steeper. As a novice you more often just allow yourself to have a lot of fun with the activity of painting, but you may never produce anything that an audience will care about.
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Great great quote. But, I think it is not simply that we should paint with a child's eye (though that is a good piece of advice!) I think what Degas meant is that the more you understand about painting, the harder it gets to make really good, really new and fresh paintings. You see the inherent difficulty it presents, the challenge gets steeper. As a novice you more often just allow yourself to have a lot of fun with the activity of painting, but you may never produce anything that an audience will care about.
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