in other words, your ability to look at the world, and distill and process the information that you need to make your painting
While painting pandanus trees may seem like a specialised thing, the process of painting them over the years has helped me develop a whole range of skills, which I’m sure will be useful for you in your arts practise. While this article is about brush technique, brush technique is only useful when you have developed some other skills as well. Some of these I’ve touched on in other articles.
In order to make a respectable painting, I believe the painting has to have it’s basis in three fundamental skills. These skills, in no particular order are:
Your perception skills (in other words, your ability to look at the world, and distill and process the information that you need to make your painting).
Conceptual skills (our ability to use the information we’ve found, and omit, exaggerate, or put our
