Why is painting NOT an appointment for a painter?
Because when you paint you are producing. Even if it relaxes you, your brain is in critical, technical and executing mode. The quote is the opposite: be passive receptor of visual stimulus.
Cameron says it: after a well-done date, your job changes without you deciding. New colors appear, compositions that you had not seen, mixtures that had not occurred to you.
10 traditional visual quotes
The most obvious thing works if you do it with the right attitude.
Classic Visual Quotes:
- Art museum (without taking notes)
- Small independent gallery
- Author film session
- photography exhibition
- Art supplies store (look at brushes, oil paints)
- Visit to changing natural light (sunset at viewpoint)
- antique market
- Botanical — observation of natural colors
- Street with graffiti or urban art
- Restoration of work in progress (some museums open it to the public)
10 Less Obvious Sensory Quotes
The non-visual also nourishes the painter's eye.
Sensory quotes for painters:
- Concert in dark room (pure hearing activates internal vision)
- Fabric store — textures and colors in another key
- Kitchen bar — real food colors
- Fishmonger — colors and reflections impossible to manufacture
- Walking in the rain with an umbrella — the light changes completely
- Wine cellar with backlight
- flower shop
- Slow cooking (observe color change when cooking)
- Museum of musical instruments — shape and wood
- Visit to an artisan workshop (ceramics, blown glass)