Continue The Painting (Like You Mean It) -499

Are you falling asleep at the switch, having walkabout, on automatic pilot? This video seeks to encourage focused intentionality - this time discussing not the start but the next phase in which operating with clear ideas about what you’re doing and why and then checking your work watching that unity is being maintained just like in the start. QUESTION: “I'm hoping sharing my own experiences with mentally putting together a couple of things you said to me when I was a student can add something to this discussion. I distinctly remember hearing you say in the entrance hall to the Framingham studio that there is only the start and the finish and no middle phase in the painting process. Another time you cautioned me in a critique that what I had put down was a good start but to now not "fool around". I sensed that both of these comments were very important but I didn't quite understand them.For a long time afterward I was unable to "start painting like I meant it" . My struggles came from my still vague understanding of what it means to see the whole scene in front of me in a unified way thus making it difficult to construct the significant visual areas in right relation to each other. I did perceive the key areas but as I constructed them I looked only at the area I was painting and failed to see the area in relation to the other key areas.My other obstacle was not trusting the location of key points and concluded wrongly that until I knew it 's location precisely that it wasn't smart to invest the time to give those point the look of nature. . I have since learned that when you do give a certain point its right look in relation to the whole, the precise location becomes very clear. You have to stay with the start until the key parts are visually right in relation to each other. My "fooling around" was my inability to emphatically give these key areas the look of the finish. To close the gap between your painterly advice and the student's practice, the student has to keep trying to understand what it means to see the entire visual impression in a unified way. I like the content of this video and particularly the title. Thanks, Paul Ken Minami https://studio.ingbretson.com