Artist's Drawing and Inspiration

My Viewpoint

It is a nice thing to be able to paint, which is probably why so many people do. It means, of course, that we have that bit of extra time from the needs of everyday survival, access to necessary materials and that we live in buildings with walls that we can hang our pictures on – and sometimes, if we’re lucky, even on other peoples’ walls. And it means being able, in solitude, to look, and see, to compare, to contrast, and to appreciate this vision. Painting is a particular type of appreciation though, one that goes beyond the everyday. It demands attention to things that we might overlook in our daily lives – like tone

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