verybody’s looking for it. Everybody’s trying to create it. It means something different to every artist and every art lover. It is the indefinable intangible. The magic bit. Let’s throw caution to the wind and explore the concept despite its implied elusiveness. It’s not something that can really be nailed down specifically to any particular aspect or element in any given artwork. Let’s face it there are vast amounts of finished artworks out there without much at all in the way of magic bits of any kind but everyone’s got to start somewhere and even if you never do paint a masterpiece at least you’ll have a lot of fun trying. I really believe there are three distinct elements to any artwork. You need all three to attain “magic-bit-ness”. The first is the original idea, subject/s, composition, reference sources, arrangement, imagination, etc. The second is the actual execution of the artwork which involves things
