I once stood in a client’s sunroom, staring at a landscape that cost four thousand pounds, only to realize the surface was spider-webbing into a thousand tiny, hideous cracks. The artist had been so caught up in the “soul” of the piece that they’d completely ignored the physics of the medium. People love to treat […]
I remember sitting in the back of a dusty studio in 1994, watching a young painter spend three hundred pounds on “professional grade” pigments only to have the entire surface crack and delaminate within six months because he hadn’t grasped the most basic mechanics of the medium. Most art schools will feed you a romanticized, […]
Stop waiting for a patron to descend from the heavens or for some prestigious academy to hand you a certificate of legitimacy. Most people think that learning how to start painting seriously involves buying the most expensive linen canvases or finding a mentor who will whisper sweet nothings about your “vision.” That is absolute nonsense. […]