Our eyes send more information to our brains than all our other sense organs combined. How we can paint this vast amount of information in a way that is practical, related to ocular reality and refreshingly sincere is what the Impressionist revolution and the art of painters such as Velazquez was all about. At Seattle Atelier we explain these practical methods because we know that to use methods which predate these ideas today is utterly foolish. Here are some examples of our teaching: -Concentrate on the things most easily seen in the order of visual importance. -We are more apt to fail when we have attempted to much than too little, so begin with what is most easily seen. -To do this, students must look carefully and with patience.To attempt everything at once is to court disaster. -There is no bad harvest in art.-the result is always commensurate with the amount of practical work put into it. Defining what is practical work is the task. -Look for differences and make them obvious, look for similarities and make them the same. -Many beginners fail to make much progress because they have not learned to take all the possible precautions concerning becoming lost in detail. -The best painter in the world can only hope to maintain a consciously objective approach better than the less capable painter. -When a student has become aware of the truth of visual phenomena and to record them in the right sequence, the illusion of things will derive automatically. Thank you. seattleatelier.org/
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:01:05 +0000