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The painter’s path II

The Painter’s Path (II)

Still talking about the importance of the Times in the painting, it is time to put the Future in the spotlight now, to use it well it will be needed to fight against Anxiety with Coldness.

To guarantee the maintenance of your goals will be necessary a sealed commitment with the coming destiny while your work is in transition.

Remember, we don’t judge the beauty of a house by the color of the clay of its bricks; In art, it has the same logic, each stage has a function, don’t be silly to think they all will be aesthetic.

In direct technique, the purpose of each session is to be the best possible preparation for the next day.

The painter’s obligation to Beauty must come only on the signing day, any prior commitment to the Beautiful will only be vanity, insecurity or flurry.

Here’s the first drawing I made in this Expedition. It took 5 days in it. None of them was spent for the purpose of visual pleasure, I just tried to find the harmony between the spaces and the tension among the elements. The hierarchy of information will come later, through the arrangement of values (light/dark).

The social media have created a commercial alternative for painters, but there’s also a trap: the false impression that all steps should be for the visual delight of the viewer.

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If so, imagine how Da Vinci would be treated today, after posting his Monalisa for the umpteenth time, in order to continue the refinement he made during the countless years he worked on the piece.
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