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Mistakes new painters make & how to avoid them.

✍️ Being impatient at the drawing stage. Take the time to make an accurate underdrawing or you’ll have problems throughout your painting. Don’t worry about detail just make sure you have an accurate map of the basic shapes. Use measuring tools like holding up sticks to your subject, grids, projectors, or image transfers all used in some form since the old masters if you want help to orient your subject on the canvas. Drawing is the most important painting skill. Keep a sketchbook, sketch from life, & always be practicing your drawing technique as it will aid every step of your painting & help you resolve issues.

🧐 Trying to exactly match a colour. Relax. No one will see your reference - colours only have to make sense within the context of the painting. Focus on form instead. Looking up exact colour recipes like for portraiture or landscapes is overrated, instead learn the munsell colour system & you’ll be set to mix anything. The munsell system breaks colour down into 3 fundamentals: hue, value, & chroma.

🍎 Learning through very specific tutorials. You’l learn by following tutorials like how to paint a tree, face, or cloud but it’s time consuming to learn to paint each individual thing. Painting ateliers & schools all build on the fundamentals of value, colour, shape & light so that you can apply the same skills no matter what you paint.

Ps. There are no black & white rules for painting (pun intended🤭) which is difficult to convey in a short vid.

Eg. one of my most successful vids is about why you shouldn’t use pure black paint but I never said there are no situations where u may knowingly prefer to use a black pigment. The key here is knowingly. If you’re educated about the potential outcome that come from a particular habit (aka. black paint lacks depth) & choose to still use it it is an educated choice not a mistake.

This is the first time I’ve split a video into a series but I wanted to do the topic justice. I’ll post these vids consecutively so you won’t have to look far to find the next one in my profile & I’ll share the longer full vid as well.