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Monday, January 20, 2020

Things Every Artist Should Know

Things Every Artist Should Know

Recently I posted a video on my YouTube channel
talking about 5 things every artist should know.  
Every Friday I am going into more depth on those 5 things.  

Click HERE to see the original video that started all this.

Week 1 was understanding color theory.  
Click HERE to see that blog post and video. 
One thing about understanding color theory is,
you will NEVER learn it all.
Don't stress!
It's a big subject and you will always be learning about color.

Week 2 was Practice, Practice and PRACTICE
Click HERE to see the how and why to practice.
Practice is critical to improving your skills.
Art isn't just talent.  It's also skills.
Skills can only be improved through practice,
just like playing the piano or shooting free throws. 

  

Week 3 is this week and the topic is one thing that can really de-rail your art journey.
STOP comparing your beginning art to someone else's
 20th year of creating art.
It's not fair to you because it sets you up for failure.
You didn't start painting to fail, but if you are comparing what you can create now to what someone else can create after being at it for 20 years,
 I'm pretty sure you will stop creating.
It's not fair to us, because you may never create
 the great art that is in you.  

Click HERE to see this video.  

If you like this or any of my videos, now would be a great time to hit the thumbs up button and subscribe to my channel.
There's tons of beginning art lessons on there.

If you haven't visited my website yet, 
now is a great time to do it.  
I have several paid single subject classes there as well as a full blown beginning art course, but there is also a FREE 4 video painting class on there and a FREE blog with many posts for beginning artists.
Click HERE to visit my website. 

I have created a FREE Facebook group especially for beginners called Bucket List Artists.  
Click HERE to go to the page, ask to join, answer the 3 questions and because you're so awesome I'll welcome you right on it.  

Thanks for stopping by today
 and let's paint together real soon.   

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Ghent, Kentucky, United States
I'm a nature artist and I love to paint old barns, rivers and lakes, trees and fence rows and flowers. I work almost daily. You can purchase paintings by contacting me at slgraves6@gmail.com and there is also a tab across the top of my blog for available paintings and one for small paintings with buy now buttons. You can also purchase through my Etsy shop using the name of Fine Nature Art. . Thank you so much for stopping by.