There are two phases in the growth of art, learning and experimenting.
I am a firm believer that to make good art you need to know the basics.
A good painter needs to know how to draw. Value sketches, design plans are foundations to a good piece of art. Knowing color will develop richness and emotion to a painting.
Phase one you learn the rules, phase two you break the rules.
The art junkie habit grows with every new or different art supply I stumble across. The new material has properties that take some time to learn. That is simple enough but then I have to see what it does with other material I already have. Rules start getting broken experiments happen. Soon the conservative watercolorist is venturing into the scary new world of mixed media. I try to give the new addition a safe name, water-media, and that works for a while. Then the oils and waxes start sneaking in and I have to confess I am on my way to a life as a mixed media artist.
I hope my family and friends will forgive and that moments of pure watercolorist will still emerge. The adventurer in me is not going to stop, so here is to experimenting and breaking rules.
Some of my favorite places to learn and get supplies are on the net and locally.
Locally:
Boundless Arts, Grand Blanc, MI
FIA, Flint MI
On the net:
