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Brighten your work with Watercolor Thoughts and painting the things you love. Talent is not a requirement to become and artist....But.... Desire, Effort, Practice and Tenacity is. There is no magic brush but practice and good Watercolor Thoughts. Don't look at your work too critically, each mistake is a stepping stone. If you don't look you will not find. Place your painting upside down, look at it from another viewpoint. Make your time spent painting more interesting, personal and fun. Any subject can be rendered exciting or mundane depending entirely on how you light it. The "Glow and Shine" is the bait that draws us to the painting. Water and light work well together as a provocative and dramatic eye catcher. Art is life long process, it does not happen overnight. One brush stroke can say so much. More is not necessarily better. A good painting is a symphony of strategically applied techniques working together. Light has special qualities that tug at the emotions and draw the eye into the picture. Paint at least one hour a day, get into a rhythm and begin to feel good about yourself. Take time out for yourself, it gets easier the more you practice. Loosen up, have fun. laugh, and listen to your favorite music and Watercolor Thoughts. Watercolor has a mind of its own. Splash around and watch the water and paint ooze all over the paper. This makes many artists quake, painting people (see Painting People on this site). Sorry, you will not become a full-blown artist overnight by just reading. Practice and have fun getting there with good Watercolor Thoughts. The turning point in your painting career will be when you learn to see tonal values. If you don't make a strong composition and a well thought out Value Sketch, color will be ineffective. If you understand that each color fits into the value scale from light to dark, the world of color will open for you. There is plenty of room in the art world for another individualized style or point of view. Once you know the basics, you can bend the rules, widening the avenue for expressing your Watercolor Thoughts. A small figure or two can spice up a dull area. It would be good to understand first hand the characteristics of various colors, degree of staining, durability, covering ability and transparency. Regardless of your intent if you are going to enjoy Watercolor Painting, have fun with it, have good Watercolor Thoughts. Don't get uptight. I feel that a wet - into- wet application is Watercolor Painting at its best. Pigments flow and interact creating diffused and unpredictable color, that's fun, that's excitement Create masterful paintings using simple techniques. Biggest problems in Watercolor Painting are caused by working too dry and over working the brush. Don't ever paint wet-into-damp paper unless you are looking for some blossoms. Observation is the basis of good drawing and painting, pay attention to the world around you. Tonal Values far more important than color. Happiness is brush control with good Watercolor Thoughts.
Creating Your Reputation! Make your name a household name! Easier said than done. But that's what will create the "sought after" effect. Now, there are a few steps that you can get started to do this. 1. Attend lots of art shows that you can exhibit your work at. Give out sample postcards of your work and absolutely collect visitors' information when they visit your booth. The larger your database of potential buyers, the greater your chance of selling them in the future. This is an often overlooked method of selling...future buyers established today. 2. Send out Press Releases about you and your work to various media channels in your area and around the country. This could be to introduce a special commemorative line of art your doing tied into a local event or special holiday or anniversary. The Public media (TV & Radio) are always looking for public interest stories. What about your work could you adapt to meet this interest? People that are seen on TV are given the gift of instant credibility. The secret is setting yourself apart from the crowd. 3. Give away some of your work to charity auctions where high profile people will be attending. Your work will automatically get associated with the quality of the event. These charity auctions typically are designed to raise funds and attract philantropic members who are eager to buy items at the auction. Your work will essentially be lifted in their eyes just from the association. This again could lead to future sales if you market yourself properly at the event. You want well known people as collectors. It is worth giving away some work to say that "so and so" collects your work. Remember...credibility
RETIREMENT ON EASY STREET
You park the car in the driveway a little earlier than you have in the last forty years. Turning around you thank it for being so good running up and down the roads and freeways without ever complaining, except for that summers day when you got hot and bothered and I replaced the radiator to make you feel cooler. Slowly walking up the driveway, running your tongue once more over the teeth removing the last traces of chocolate cake that fellow workers gave you along with that wooden cheap looking retirement plaque. NOW WHAT? Fishing is what Bill does six months a year, with all the rain we get in this part of the world along with the numerous time the lakes freeze over. NO---not for me , trying to drown worms on the end of a hook. Golf that's it. Jack has taught himself at 65 years of age. But, he has spent lots of money at Dr. Crackit's place, you know he is the local Chiropractor. Jack was telling me with all those double bogeys on his card, he is always have to pay the sharks (I'm not sure if he is fishing or golfing). So here I am thinking, where could I be nice and warm and protected from the cold and also be out in the open during the warmer weather. You know a few extra bucks would not be a bad thing either. A week later, surfing the web, I run across "jims-watercolor-gallery.Com " (must be an American outfit,. can't spell colour). Jim said free lessons and useful information for everybody. A day later with some ideas on supplies I find myself in Charlie's Paper & Paint Store. Got to watch the cost now. One thing Jim said, buy only quality materials don't go overboard on spending, rather than purchasing half a dozen made in China brushes, buy one good one, that being, a well made synthetic round 10 to 14 size, tapered, tipped, flagged, abraded and etched to increase color carrying ability. Guess what, when those words were uttered the clerk at Charlies thought this man is a Pro, felt a bit like that myself. When told the specification for the paper that rolled right off my tongue, he knew for sure this must be a famous artist. Adjusting my beret. Out popped 140 lb. cotton cold press 22" x 30" size natural white, I paused and then said "normally use Arches but to-day do you have Windsor and Newtons, paper". Choose Artist's Quality colors. Two Reds, Two Blues and Two Yellows, Warm and Cool of each. Then added what Jim said was a magic color "Burnt Sienna". Didn't mention the word magic to the clerk, could not remember why it was magical. Better get back to the site to find the answer. Did remember to buy only single pigment tubes look for the code, small print, example for PB29 for pigment Blue - no more mud for me. Set the colors around the edge of a white plastic plate, going to wait for a bit, before asking the wife for one of the white plates in the china cabinet. As a "Pro" Dresden Antique Plate would work. Did notice in Watercolor Painting Supplies the cost of a plastic palette was around Ten American Dollars, not sure the cost of fixing a broken Dresden Plate. Practice and more practice, fun and more fun, no double bogeys or expensive fish for me. This thought is running inside my head, based on Jim's site letting me show my work to the world. What if you had purchased some early work of Van Gogh or Picaso? Why not my early work. I have made some good intelligent decisions about my retirement haven't I. Going to learn to paint, earn extra money to help pay for that faithful old car of forty years, when the Rolls Royce became my pride and joy the forty five year note didn't seem to matter.
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