The pernicious practice of âfeedback’
Ditch it, says a business consultant. We artists could learn something from him. Blizzard, by Carol L. Douglas. We all want to be outside, so my students painted out the windows yesterday. I’ve done that a few times myself! One of my students just came back from wintering in Australia. Weâve been practicing formal analysis …
Buying too many paints is a classic rookie error
Mix, don’t buy, your colors. Grand Bahama palms, by Carol L. Douglas. There’s really no reason to buy any greens for oil painting, and just one will do for watercolors. â[Our] watercolor instructor wants us to buy every color we need for a painting. I think it is unnecessary because you can mix colors to …
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Monday Morning Art School: landscape from abstraction
Create a drop-dead painting from a so-so scene. Wreck of the SS Ethie, by Carol L. Douglas Certain places are fascinating for something other than their pictorial value. The angle, the light, and the setting arenât conducive to a great composition. An example of this was the wreckage of the SS Ethie in Gros Morne …
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Finding your audience
Marketing art is about being as visible and transparent as you can tolerate. Electric Glide, by Carol L. Douglas âAny thoughts you ever have on who might be interested in what I do, either gallery-wise, or direct buyer-wise, I’m all ears,â a reader commented on a recent post about finding your audience. I know this …
Feeling rejected?
In the end, thereâs an audience for nearly everything. The trick is finding it. The Red Vineyard, 1888, Vincent van Gogh. It was sold to Anna Boch for 400 francs in 1890. Courtesy Pushkin Museum, Moscow. âI like paintings with buildings in them,â a non-artist friend told me yesterday. âScenes are beautiful, and I appreciate them, …