Painting
Facts, tips and ideas about Painting — and how to find people for it.
Did you know?
An hour with a brush feels like an hour where the mental noise just pauses. The painting itself is almost beside the point.
The cave paintings of Lascaux are around 17,000 years old — animals in red earth, black charcoal, yellow ocher, painted by the light of tallow lamps deep underground. The need to hold on to something seen is older than farming.
Source: Wikipedia
Tip
Paint together without expectations: sit down, paint for an hour, talk about the results.
Start with the darkest value, then the lightest — the middle takes care of itself. If you start in the middle, you'll never get the whole picture back into balance later.
Inspiration
Every picture starts with one stroke. Yours is still waiting.
A small challenge
Same subject, two sheets. Compare at the end — no two look alike.
Break the ice
“If your life were a painting — what style?” Abstract? Impressionism? Chaos?
“Which painting surprised you most recently — by whom, and why?”
Not every line here is sourced. Where a source is named you can read it up; the rest is collected knowledge.