Video: Pastel Drawing Completion

A pastel drawing is complete solely at the discretion of the artist. Learn about the artistic process of completion with tips from a professional artist in this free instructional art video.

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When is our painting finished? When it captures the mood that you are trying to capture. The level of detail you put in is irrelevant. We can work this for another ten, twelve hours and put in every little spot and every little detail, or we can stop now. Or, we could've stopped an hour ago, or two hours ago. Make no difference, it's entirely subjective. The art isn't the important thing, the important thing is the process. Art isn't about creating pictures, it's about training your eye how to see. If you train your eye how to see things like shadows and light, when you look at the world, you'll see so much more than you can possibly imagine if you don't go through the process of practicing visualization. Leanardo DeVinci wasn't a great artist because he wanted to be an artist, he was a great artist because he was a scientist trying to study nature, and the way he studied nature was by observing. And the process of drawing and painting forced him to see things the way nobody had ever seen things before. This a nice bi-product of the process, but what it's all about is really learning how to use your eyes in ways that you can't learn how to use your eyes in any other way. The process is more important than the painting. It's nice to have a painting, but it's even nicer to be able to see things that nobody else can see when you look at a still life. Enjoy the process.

Pastel Drawing Completion

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