Dysmorphia💛🤍💜🖤3d ago
A big part of the pleasure of plain air painting is that you get to look at something beautiful for a long time, much longer than you would otherwise. If the painting works out, it’s a bonus. I seem to be developing the habit of doing multiple versions #watercolor #pleinair
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Things I’ve learned today: use nonstaining pigments for under-painting, wait until it’s totally dry before doing straight lines, swatch value not just color, and I gotta learn some technique to give the impression of buildings on hills.

Thing I learned again that I keep learning: big fussy painting with tons of details that take a lot of time are rarely as good as quick, gestural painting executed spontaneously. BUT I have to do the fussy one first and then the breezy one second to somehow get the shapes out.

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It’s paradoxical and someone looking at the paintings might thing the one done last was the initial sketch. Typing this, I realize this is an exact corollary to my writing process. Long, wordy, detailed first drafts with messy structure. Each draft simpler and more organized.
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Final drafts, the ones I’m most pleased with, so simple and easy it seems like I just thought of them spontaneously. And indeed I often do. I write pages and pages. Then I revise. Then I throw it all away and “spontaneously” produce the perfect text.
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Anytime someone asks how to write faster I’m like I have no fucking clue. I am incredibly slow. I have never found a way to be faster. I have got better though. My first drafts are still generally bad, though I can imagine my bad draft could be another person’s good enough draft.