Art practice

Art artist life need to revolve around art. Anything else that does not contribute should be sacrificed or discarded: Attitudes, mode of thoughts, counterproductive relationships, environments and lifestyles.

For oil painters: Increase the fluidity of your paint by mixing the colour with glaze medium (a mix of linseed oil, dammar varnish and solvent), and apply with a fine round or rigger brush for flowing, even, unbroken lines.

Painting well requires the artist’s undivided attention.

It is extremely important that we always think about what we are doing.

The English language is not very rich in terms that express aesthetic things.

the significance doesn’t matter. The historical significance deadens it. Across those unbridgeable distances—between bird and painter, painting and viewer—I hear only too well what’s being said to me, a psst from an alleyway as Hobie put it, across four hundred years of time, and it’s really very personal and specific. It’s there in the light-rinse