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4 - Art & Beginning (getting good mileage)   In this Art & blog though I focus mainly on the methods, philosophies and joys of painting, these ideas can work across various types of Art making. My focus here is on painting because that’s what I do.      This post on The Mileage is really just a piece of a longer essay which I started with The Fuel of Art & Beginning. In a previous post on The Engine I listed the 14 posts which compose the longer essay about Art & Beginning. In the last post we surveyed The Driver of painting. That, of [...]

  3 - Art & Beginning (the driver or the glorious artist)   In this Art & blog though I focus mainly on the methods, philosophies and joys of painting, these ideas can work across various types of Art making. My focus here is on painting because that’s what I do.    In the last post we surveyed ‘The Engine’ of painting. The engine is composed of 4 essentials (subject, medium, tools and tabula) the artist uses The Engine to bring his/her imagination AND his/her “I want…” Fuel to life.    Art, as we have noted, is a largely subjective enterprise. This sets Art apart from objective or [...]

2 - Art & Beginning (the engine or 4 essential factors in painting)   In this Art & blog though I focus mainly on the methods, philosophies and joys of painting, these ideas can work across various types of Art making. My focus here is on painting because that’s what I do.    In the last post we surveyed ‘The Fuel’ for why we paint. Why does anyone begin to paint? Because they want to. Though Art is necessary to being fully human it is by definition subjective, not a science, not made or controlled by formulae.    In the modern era we have made so much [...]

    1 - Art & Beginning (the fuel)   How should we begin a painting or a career in painting? Russian Artist, Wassily Kandinsky noted that “There is no must in art because art is free.” Indeed. Many career paths have a set of proficiencies a person must achieve before they can make that their career: surgeon, accountant, architect, contractor, nurse, engineer, educator, chef and so forth. In the arts — as in painting per the focus of this blog — you are free to begin as you please or within the range of opportunities open to you.    ‘The Blue Rider’ Wassily Kandinsky, 1903 (pub [...]