I was watching some tutorials learning how to paint rocks, hills, cliffs. I had a brain wave moment – I totally understand why the artists say that painting to understand the subject. I have always painted or drew a in accounting manner – I have to know where to place the mark. I simply have no feeling about art.
I figured out the feeling is merely and intuition about the subject.
It’s not about the mark placement yet about the mark placement.
Ommmm….
Looking through my art practices, I am surprised that my first posting was only 2 years ago in May 2022. I felt it was much longer – I feel some impatience in the learning process. I didn’t feel impatience when I was drawing. I was mainly prodding along. When my drawing skills improved, I was excited because I gain confidence enough to try watercolour. However there is a strong sense of I want to learn more, learn faster. There is a lot of frustration. I just began and haven’t done much practices yet I have this strong ambition to want to hit the tutorials close to the artist who post them. I hit some marks and don’t hit others. This is normal yet I feel frustrated.
Last week, I was copying an Oliver Pyle’s painting and I actually felt relaxed and the final output was not horrible. (I was very unrelaxed following Egle Kolev botanical paintings. I just couldn’t get it but strangely that really improved my skills.) I also tried Prema Watercolour which many others love but I don’t. I found Yong Chen Enjoying Art really hard but I love the art school look but the session was too hard to follow.
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