Monday morning art school: how do I know I’m finished?
I say, “I’m done when I’m sick of working on it,” but that isn’t particularly helpful advice. There are also some objective factors involved.
A portrait of lost time
Buffalo loves its grain elevators but can’t quite figure out what to do with them. I feel exactly the same way, but I’m a landscape painter.
Your success does not diminish me
You’re the only person who matters in your own art career, and you make your own measuring stick.
Monday Morning Art School: composition is about light, not objects
Most realist painters don’t spend nearly enough time on abstract design, even when they understand the critical importance of line and value.
Nothing lasts forever
Sadly, we can never predict what will remain and what will be washed away by the tides of time, never to be painted again.