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Van Waldron - From the Beginning category:
Try to paint one object at first, with larger and fewer brush strokes. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Books category:
Paintings are book histories and sermons, which can be read without the trouble of turning the pages. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Challenge category:
Never be discouraged by the gap between what you imagine before you began and what you achieve. Each attempt is a challenge, each idea leads you toward what you will be able to do the next time. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Composition category:
A painting is a series of large flat planes of color first, and then break up the planes, fitting the pieces together in a composition. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Disappointment category:
Don't be disappointed in your painting; as you develop in painting and life, the challenge will be met. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Drawing category:
Drawing is concentrated observation. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Edges category:
One of the most important processes in your painting is the edge quality of the objects, hard, soft or lost. We make a hard edge where we have the point of interest or when we want that area of the painting to stand out... An edge is the process where two values come together in your painting. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Edges category:
We never have hard edges on all the objects in the painting. Even when you are painting realistic (photographic), we still have softer edges throughout the painting. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Enthusiasm category:
We look at the subject as something routine in character. You must see it and paint it as something fantastic and fabulous. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Expression category:
Try to concentrate on impact and personal expressiveness, rather than technique. What comprises a finished statement? One brush stroke or one hundred - a decision each one of us has to resolve in our own way. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Finishing category:
Try to finish your painting while you are still excited about it. Spend too much time, you loose interest, and the picture begins to fall apart. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Ideas category:
Use the set-up as an idea. Look for a spark, a color, or a shape for your creativity. Then let this spark direct your painting. Be free, bold and go with this energy, not a copy. If you start dark, light, bright, soft or etc., go with it, do not change, make it work. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Impressionism category:
The larger the brush strokes the more impressionist your work will be. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Language category:
Art is, after all, a visual work made up of marks, shapes, color and tones, rather than words. As your artistic skill and vocabulary develop, you will be able to express increasingly complicated concepts. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Observation category:
Landscape painting is a concentrated, meditative journey in observation. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Observation category:
All art is based on observation, and this, in its time, must be disciplined to be of any value. Vague recollections are of no value to the artist. Know what you are looking for and why, and then record it. Then look again, for what you missed. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Painting category:
Paintings are loopholes of escape to the soul. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Plein-Air category:
Plein-Air painting: do not spend your time thinking about everything or you will miss what the painting is about - capture the mood of the day, have fun and think about it later. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Plein-Air category:
-taken from the lyrics of When It's Gone, performed by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / John Denver...
We only get one chance to listen to the wind, and when it is gone, it will not be back. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Risk category:
Being a good painter is a question of risk and letting go. It is not being afraid to make a mistake. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Rules category:
Let the subject tell you what to do - there is no right or wrong way to paint. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Senses category:
Sensitivity to touch is one of the key distinctions between an artist and a person who is just using paint. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Spectator category:
Painters who simply copy their subject will never give the spectator a living sensation of the object. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Subject category:
The subject is you, yourself, your impressions, your emotions toward the object and nature. You must look inside and not around you. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Vision category:
You must capture in your painting your own internal impressions and visions. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Windows category:
Paintings are windows to the imprisoned thoughts. (Van Waldron)
Van Waldron - From the Worry category:
When you stop worrying about things you can't control, then you will be much happier. (Van Waldron)
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