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    Stuart Johnson

    Feb 18, 2022 5 minutes

    STUART’S TOP TIPS

    • Enjoy the escape that painting brings you. It doesn’t matter how good it is. If things don’t go to plan, just learn from it, and move on.

    • Manage your expectations. The better I have become at painting, the more pressure I put on myself to do better. It puts me off starting something, as I have such high expectations.

    • There’s a stage of a painting that doesn’t look very good at all. If you get past it, the painting does eventually come together.

    We all come to drawing and painting at different times in our lives and although Stuart Johnson enjoyed drawing as a child – and he certainly has a natural aptitude for it – he has no other background in art. In fact, he didn’t pick up a pencil again until

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