3 Unpopular Beliefs I Have as an Artist
🚩3 Unpopular Opinions I Have as a Watercolor/Mixed-Media Artist
✏️1. Drawing is the basis for all kinds of art.
I believe in continuing to develop my drawing/sketching skills alongside my painting skills because I have seen how it helps me improve my art.
Not to mention, I don't want to have to depend on tracing and building up art from scratch is incredibly rewarding.
🖌️ 2. Having the highest quality supplies won't necessarily help you improve your art.
I built up my skills with student-grade supplies because that's what I had access to in the beginning. I did just fine by focusing on what matters (Art Fundamentals).
To the day, even as a professional artist, I use many very accessibly priced, student-grade supplies.
As I always say, "Having Michael Jordan's sneakers won't make you an amazing basketball player. Persistence and focusing on the right type of practice, will."
🎨3. Learning Color Theory is essential, spending months swatching tons of paint colors isn't.
We learn about color to paint things, not to spend months creating color charts and going down rabbit holes trying to discover each paint color's particularities.
Learn color theory, the color wheel, color temperature, use a limited color palette, and just paint stuff!
You'll improve faster by doing so.
Cheers!👩🎨
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