Things You Should Be Thinkin' About (When You Paint)

• Speed combats hesitancy - work quick.
• Free your mind, and your brush will follow. (Shut off your brain.)
• See and respond, nothing more.
• Squint!!! Shapes of value (there are no "outlines")
• Proportions = siting.
• Painting as a universe. Everything relates to everything else in your painting! (Sizes are relative to one another, values are relative.)
• Check your values!!!
• You only know a value is "dark" or "light" by its relationship to the value next to it.
• General to specific - never the other way.
• Your painting should "arrive" at the same time. (All at once as if out of a fog. Don't focus on the figure.)
• Control your edges.
• Atmospheric perspectives provides "depth."
• Identify your lightest light and darkest dark from the very beginning of your painting.
• Step back from your painting and LOOK!!!!!
• CONTRAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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