Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.
After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.
Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.
The painting is usually finished before you are.
The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.
All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.
In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.
Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.
Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.
We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.
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