Note: This month's live chat will be on the 4th Sunday, October 27 rather than tomorrow. I hope you can join us then. This week we published our 500th Quick Tip on YouTube! Another milestone!
People ask me why we give out so much free information about painting. The real answer is that, honestly, I can't tolerate emerging artists not knowing basics about painting. Maybe that's the teacher in me, but it's the artist in me, too.
I remember my early days of painting all too well.
There were no art classes in school where I grew up. The only artist I encountered in my childhood was my father's aunt who our family rarely visited. Yet, paint sets in our local dime store and my Aunt Emily's poster temperas were magnets pulling me to
them. And the single and only day of art is school, finger painting in the first grade, remains my happiest experience in elementary school years. But, in those early years, a family visit to a jug potter's shop thrilled me to the bone. He walked me through is entire process from processing the clay to firing the pots. The was my first milestone.
Now, dozens of milestones later, I realize that it was not so much pottery being made as something creative materializing from scratch. It was the first time I had seen an artist of any kind in action. The days, years and decades that followed have been saturated
with curiosity about the creative process and the individual uniqueness that shapes it, especially as it manifests through painting. The complete process--from the craft of working with brushes and paint to bringing the visual principles to life on a flat surface-- still blows my mind every time I experience it. It is a joy to share this with all of you who want to have the experience, too!
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Happy Painting,
Dianne
dianne@diannemize.com
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