Every painting means a brand-new journey full of experiences and the chance to try out what you haven’t done in previous ones. For me, painting provides this uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that exists between what you intended to do and what you really did.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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As David Bayles and Ted Orland said: “To the artist and the artist alone what matters is the process, the experience of shaping the artwork from scratch”.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“The breeze that stirred the heart” was a special one. The last painting of a series of 5 that were based on the sea and took months on the making. Inspired by Monet’s “Cliff Walk at Pourville” it was also the most challenging. Invested more than 100 hours on it, 30 of those painting flowers and hoping at some point to achieve the result I was hoping for, losing inspo and the desire to finish it at some point. To survive these troubles requires confronting, basically, those who continue to make art are those who learned how to not quit. And the reward? Maybe there isn’t. But personally, the satisfaction of watching it completed is all I needed to keep going.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The point is that you learn how to make your work by making it, and most of the paintings you make along the way will never stand out as “finished”. The best you can do is make art you care about.
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As David Bayles and Ted Orland said: “To the artist and the artist alone what matters is the process, the experience of shaping the artwork from scratch”.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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“The breeze that stirred the heart” was a special one. The last painting of a series of 5 that were based on the sea and took months on the making. Inspired by Monet’s “Cliff Walk at Pourville” it was also the most challenging. Invested more than 100 hours on it, 30 of those painting flowers and hoping at some point to achieve the result I was hoping for, losing inspo and the desire to finish it at some point. To survive these troubles requires confronting, basically, those who continue to make art are those who learned how to not quit. And the reward? Maybe there isn’t. But personally, the satisfaction of watching it completed is all I needed to keep going.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The point is that you learn how to make your work by making it, and most of the paintings you make along the way will never stand out as “finished”. The best you can do is make art you care about.