Artist's Back to Basics

Brush Article 14

In the last article we discussed relinquishing control, and looked at how relinquishing control can help create a “natural feel” by allowing the paintbrush to have its own way, to a certain extent.

This article will focus on exactly the opposite. We’ll be looking at absolute control, and developing skills to help achieve it. Technique is liberating. Being able to have your brush do exactly what you want it to do, whenever you want it to, opens you up to a whole world of creation.

Being able to have your brush do exactly what you want it to do, whenever you want it to, opens you up to a whole world of creation.

You’ll regularly hear me bang on about a gradation of colour or tone. One of the reasons I am so fixated on this skill, is because it’s a little like lifting

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