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Wondering if you should study watercolor? Here are some questions and answers:
FAQ watercolor questions.
1.Will I be able to learn if I am older or not talented?
Besides the fact that keeping your brain active in later life has huge benefits of viability as you age, painting can bring meaning and pleasure like few other activities can. Also there is no such thing as talent. Or conversely, everyone is talented at everything if only they can find the formula to unlock it. The appearance that some people are artists and others are not is an illusion. If some people do more art it’s because they had encouragement and opportunity to practice and learn. Anyone can do it.
2. How long will it take to become good at painting?
You will be good at painting right away, to the degree of your knowledge from the first technique learned and first brush stroke applied. That is, if your expectations are correct. You cannot become a great painter just by virtue of the fact that you are a creative person and desire to express yourself. You will have to take the steps one at a time and learn to appreciate each triumph to get the courage to go the next step. Do not insult the experienced professional painters by expecting to be as good as they are with a few lessons. The deeper you go into the process the more you will appreciate the complexity of painting and the more you will appreciate paintings. Your goals will change from wanting to impress others or yourself, to finding ways to learn and enjoy the process more.
3. What if I do not like what I make?
You won’t as long as you use incorrect standards of what is good or bad. You will learn to like different things such as appreciating new ways of seeing the world that will open up your eyes to an exciting vista of opportunities. Interesting challenges and rich understanding of the visual world leading to profound new meaning of what art is and what it is for: not decoration, showing off, or to make money. Instead to make life more worth living.
4. Is it really worth all the time it is going to take to learn to paint?
About as much as it is worth taking time to know and love a new person. The rewards far out weight the time and effort involved.
5. How do you make gray?
You do not need to know this because gray will not be a concept you care about in the future. Instead you will be interested in the ten thousand colors you can make with different mixtures of red, yellow, blue and water that may in some worlds be under the heading of gray. You will learn to detect the formula in the color you see and then make and use it. Probably you will never make that color again, because next time it will be another combination of red, yellow, blue and water.
6.How can I minimize the pain of being new and not very good at something?
This might be the hardest part. But it is good for you to feel incompetent then gain competence. It gives you courage to do other things and empathy for all beginners. It helps to be in an encouraging environment with lots of company. Never show early work to friends and family unless they are in the same boat: also learning to paint.
7. How do you make brown?
Same way you make gray: see above.
8. How do you paint water?
The same way you paint trees, glass, flesh, flowers, clouds, furniture, or anything you see: change your perspective by translating what you see to hard and soft edged shapes, and within those shapes, colors, values and texture. Then you can paint anything.
9. What about backgrounds?
Until you understand that a study is not a painting, you may ask what shall I put around the thing I just painted? A shadow? The sky? Just hone your painting skills until you know how to use the materials well, then consider composition before creating an actual painting where the pieces that fit together in the rectangle have specific purposes. But also, it is good to learn color theory and how to make colors brighter or lighter depending on the surroundings, or how to evoke emotions by how shapes as well as colors and values are arranged.
10. Can I paint if I am no good at drawing?
You can be an expert drawer with the right lesson. You can learn in an hour if you follow the directions of the right brain drawing approach, which shows that you already can draw perfectly with the right mind set. And you must be a good drawer to have a painting: it is the structure or the bones on which you hang the color.
FAQ watercolor questions.
1.Will I be able to learn if I am older or not talented?
Besides the fact that keeping your brain active in later life has huge benefits of viability as you age, painting can bring meaning and pleasure like few other activities can. Also there is no such thing as talent. Or conversely, everyone is talented at everything if only they can find the formula to unlock it. The appearance that some people are artists and others are not is an illusion. If some people do more art it’s because they had encouragement and opportunity to practice and learn. Anyone can do it.
2. How long will it take to become good at painting?
You will be good at painting right away, to the degree of your knowledge from the first technique learned and first brush stroke applied. That is, if your expectations are correct. You cannot become a great painter just by virtue of the fact that you are a creative person and desire to express yourself. You will have to take the steps one at a time and learn to appreciate each triumph to get the courage to go the next step. Do not insult the experienced professional painters by expecting to be as good as they are with a few lessons. The deeper you go into the process the more you will appreciate the complexity of painting and the more you will appreciate paintings. Your goals will change from wanting to impress others or yourself, to finding ways to learn and enjoy the process more.
3. What if I do not like what I make?
You won’t as long as you use incorrect standards of what is good or bad. You will learn to like different things such as appreciating new ways of seeing the world that will open up your eyes to an exciting vista of opportunities. Interesting challenges and rich understanding of the visual world leading to profound new meaning of what art is and what it is for: not decoration, showing off, or to make money. Instead to make life more worth living.
4. Is it really worth all the time it is going to take to learn to paint?
About as much as it is worth taking time to know and love a new person. The rewards far out weight the time and effort involved.
5. How do you make gray?
You do not need to know this because gray will not be a concept you care about in the future. Instead you will be interested in the ten thousand colors you can make with different mixtures of red, yellow, blue and water that may in some worlds be under the heading of gray. You will learn to detect the formula in the color you see and then make and use it. Probably you will never make that color again, because next time it will be another combination of red, yellow, blue and water.
6.How can I minimize the pain of being new and not very good at something?
This might be the hardest part. But it is good for you to feel incompetent then gain competence. It gives you courage to do other things and empathy for all beginners. It helps to be in an encouraging environment with lots of company. Never show early work to friends and family unless they are in the same boat: also learning to paint.
7. How do you make brown?
Same way you make gray: see above.
8. How do you paint water?
The same way you paint trees, glass, flesh, flowers, clouds, furniture, or anything you see: change your perspective by translating what you see to hard and soft edged shapes, and within those shapes, colors, values and texture. Then you can paint anything.
9. What about backgrounds?
Until you understand that a study is not a painting, you may ask what shall I put around the thing I just painted? A shadow? The sky? Just hone your painting skills until you know how to use the materials well, then consider composition before creating an actual painting where the pieces that fit together in the rectangle have specific purposes. But also, it is good to learn color theory and how to make colors brighter or lighter depending on the surroundings, or how to evoke emotions by how shapes as well as colors and values are arranged.
10. Can I paint if I am no good at drawing?
You can be an expert drawer with the right lesson. You can learn in an hour if you follow the directions of the right brain drawing approach, which shows that you already can draw perfectly with the right mind set. And you must be a good drawer to have a painting: it is the structure or the bones on which you hang the color.
