365 Words and Phrases Abstract core--abstraction strengthening realism Activation--magic spots that direct the eye Arial perspective--going back easy Art schooly--some march to a different drum Avoidance activity--the thief of productivity Bee-action--brushwork like a bee at flowers Big picture--broad design trumps fiddling Blocked--some artists simply are Box canyon--places you cant get out of Bravura--confident, flamboyant brushwork Broom and whisk--brush size for style Butterfly mind--your key to imagination Chair and feet--what on and how you work Chiaroscuro--form by light and shade Cigar time--a civilized, reflective self-crit Circulation--moving the eye around a work Clientosis--too much attention to customer Colour surprise--unexpected pictorial focus Coming to light--basic principle of life Commit and correct--a creative principle Condition--Whats happening in there? Constipation--creative tightening up Counterpoint--the secondary leitmotif Defocus--softening up for mystique Desire--the worlds greatest power Distractive creativity--gifted subconscious flow Edgemanship--know your edges Educosis--work blinded by education Ego-force--the power that billows your sails Eye control--management of the viewers eyes Faxification--limited range of tonal values Flow--automatic right-brain painting Focus--Wheres the climax? Form--when all else fails Glaze down--toning a painting for mother colour Grace notes--extra nuances for added interest Gradations and flats--main ways of treating areas Grey power--sophisticated, delicious neutrals Guilt--the thief of power Half-closed eyes--the way to really see Hard and soft--the two buddies of joy Homeostasis--the creeping crime of equality Horizontality--the alpha of back and forth Infectious dilettantism--good enough is okay Interlocking patterns--hidden design strength Iron will--the power to overcome Joy stroke--where visual happiness prevails Kitch and callow--beginners potholes Leave out--subtraction as creative ploy Leave out a primary--a winning colour device Limited palette--less is more Literary entrapment--the red barn Lost and found--the music of disappearances Low expectations--aim low and hit the mark Magic hour--a great time to paint Mishmash--a work of too many subjects Mother colour--chosen colour pervading all Nap time--the shut down that reboots Overworking--the boo-boo of perfectionists Painterly senility--watch for it as you age Paucity--absence of; key to pictorial charm Photographosis--photo dependence; it shows Pink focus--noses and elbows; a convention Plein air cure--the advent of authenticity Point system--every work has its points Pomodoro--the tomato of time Pump priming--methods of getting started Put more into it--adding without cluttering Rebrushification--change brushes; often up Reflected light--the gentle lift that reads Scumble--dragging a lighter colour over Secondary easel--a change of personality Squeeze out--first thing in the morning Stringy and thready--a terminal danger Studiothrombosis--art and you can die of this Style alert--triggering the advent of style Surface quality--the work you love to cruise Syncopation--boogie-woogie energy Syntagma--similar forms montaging Talk back--let the painting speak to you Three four five--stepping back well into Three sixty--rotate your view Time inversion--slow work that looks quick Toil--the professionals secret weapon Too one two--a simplistic work Toolitis--the reliance on tools Verticality--the power of up and down Volume--the benefits of making many What could be?--the golden question Zips and flourishes--Final focus fun ? sorry this is uncredited ?
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:30:24 +0000
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