Improve Your Life And Your Art

Our art is really just a sequence of choices.
A series of “Yes I like this”, or “No, I don’t like that” decisions.
In the end it is all about discernment.
To get good at this we need to practice. Not just in our art but
also in our life. Discernment is the primary factor in making your art, truly yours.
Focusing on discernment in both Art and Life optimizes both.
It can make the mediocre, extraordinary.
Are you saying “yes” when maybe it should be a “no”?
Let us know in the comments!
Thanks for sharing a small part of your Sunday with us,
Nicholas

[@simondebrun]

Great stuff! I'm really enjoying your short clips. You mentioned you were mixing Liquin with your oil paints. Are those large bottles oil paint also?

[@joannavandeneijnden5437]

Please tell me what is in the plastic bottels? I see tubes of oil but what is in the plastic bottels???? Thinned down oil???

[@joannavandeneijnden5437]

I noticed That someone else also wants to know whats in the plastic bottels!!!!! Please let us know!!! Looks so easy!!!

[@quuqeemonster]

Whats in the squeeze bottles !!!

[@carolyndaniele4932]

Yes, please, what is in the bottles?

[@mariettakopriva-vogelmann6384]

Great! Thanks! Finally I got some idea how colors harmonize together.

[@alrenefischer4481]

I absolutely love how you work ,paint, draw just everything , I am trying to learn everybit I can as I live in Africa Cape Town so I can’t join as we are in Rands and you in dollars . So I am watching all your work and talks everyday ....... Thank you 🙏 so grateful I would love to buy a piece too.

[@jodestella502]

Got it now to retain it. My work (old) is more expressionistic and psychological but clearly needs better understanding of color. Thank you for your generosity an the opportunity you give us to hang out with you.

[@colleenmiller9932]

This was wonderful and really helped me get the balances of value, saturation and harmony concept!

[@arlenewalsh8671]

Great video, thanks. When you say saturated, do you mean opaque?

[@dario1965]

Thank You, I am learning more from these short clips than I learned from my profs at university.

[@Art2Life]

So happy to hear that!

[@jodestella502]

I feel the same way, Dario.

[@sha.Lesley]

So interesting to listen to what you say.... it will help me to understand my work better 😀

[@valerijohnson2839]

Thank you. You answer so many of my questions.

[@annclairegreig2635]

Great seeing this broken down again

[@vincentgeels8962]

You are amazing, , thanks

[@joannavandeneijnden5437]

Me too learning so so much!!!!!

[@stepho68]

Really helpful

[@joannavandeneijnden5437]

Do you also use acryl or just oils??