Hiya,
Just wondering if anyone has any advice/anecdotes about learning how to paint?
I saw a thread a while ago about working with stained glass that got a lot of interest, and thought maybe the folk here might know a thing or two about this as well.
I have really gotten into looking at the works of impressionists ( https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m03xj1 ) like Monet and Edward Hopper's early work, and would love to try my hand at it. If anything it would be to get more of an appreciation for the art, and as an emotional outlet after writing code every day.
I am pretty independent and would like to do as much as I can myself before going to a course and wasting someones time trying to understand things I could learn on my own, and have a better foundation for learning.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
To learn to make art you spend time working with the materials. That is it.
When the urge arises to judge the quality of your work, it will be tempting to say this is good or this is bad.
Take that energy that you might put into assessing the aesthetic and put it back into the materials instead.
Persist and grow. Avoid aesthetic judgements, and instead produce work.
Inevitably as you deepen your experience you will begin to autonomously develop techniques and content that you find yourself returning to.
As you progress through this process your style will begin to take unique, identifiable shape.
Through this process you will become a true painter.
Many people mistake technical capacity at predefined aesthetics as painting, but I would argue that this produces uninteresting work.
Every identifiable style was born from people who chose to work outside of preexisting style.
Goodluck.