“Our lives are a series of mile stones – school, job, marriage, and so on – and at each stage of our life’s journey we acquire information, gain experience, often without realising it. This helps us move on to the next stage of our personal development.”
So you have bought the D.V.D., watched the artist mix his paints, select his brushes and paper, listened eagerly while he talked about the light source, the tonal values, and the focal point, now what could be easier than that? Just do what he did and you too will have a very nice painting,’’ NO TROUBLE!’’ So you followed his instructions to the letter, mixed all the right colours, used the same brushes ‘’ BUT … BUT …’’ it doesn’t look the same as his, the colours are all wrong, no light source, buildings all out of perspective. Well now, we have all been there, done that, just hide that one somewhere out of sight, it will be better next time. Must be my paper, or my cheap paints, well sorry there may be a little truth in that but the real problem is down to experience, as an experienced artist, especially a well known artist producing an art DVD. There are
