Quoted from a post made by Jane Stuart in the Wet Canvas Forum for Creativity.
"You must find your own way, and take what you can from all you encounter, especially other artists. There is no one correct way.
I must tell this story. Years ago I met Andrew Wyeth he was painting a portrait of my cousin, so I was fortunate to meet the artist. I was in art school at the time, and he knew I was a young painter. The conversation went like this:
AW Have you ever tried watercolor?
JS Not seriously, not yet
AW Oh, it's a wonderful medium. You simply must try it! But, whatever you do, don't let anyone tell you how to paint with it, you must figure it out for yourself."
"You must find your own way, and take what you can from all you encounter, especially other artists. There is no one correct way.
I must tell this story. Years ago I met Andrew Wyeth he was painting a portrait of my cousin, so I was fortunate to meet the artist. I was in art school at the time, and he knew I was a young painter. The conversation went like this:
AW Have you ever tried watercolor?
JS Not seriously, not yet
AW Oh, it's a wonderful medium. You simply must try it! But, whatever you do, don't let anyone tell you how to paint with it, you must figure it out for yourself."
Very interesting! I can understand why that's true. Painting is one part intuitive and 3 parts practice, so everyone ends up with their own unique spin that is their own sort of brand.
ReplyDeleteThank you for bringing me back to this post. I had forgotten about it's existence :(. Plan to print and read these past posts. So thanks again.
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