It is important to paint what we see but more important is to paint what we feel. The more we paint the more we learn. The more we know the harder the journey. It never gets any easier. Painting outdoors is to communicate with nature, to listen and hear what she has to say, to learn to see and mostly to feel the scene in front of us. The intimacy which develops between the artist and nature is a relationship. This response takes time to nurture and years to develop. Painting outdoors is an emotional response towards what an artist sees but most of all feels. Without feelings a painting is merely a painting, a mechanical portrait. The day we settle and painting becomes an easy task is the day we stop growing as an artist. We stop making art we merely paint pictures.
It is important to paint what we see but more important is to paint what we feel. The more we paint the more we learn. The more we know the harder the journey. It never gets any easier. Painting outdoors is to communicate with nature, to listen and hear what she has to say, to learn to see and mostly to feel the scene in front of us. The intimacy which develops between the artist and nature is a relationship. This response takes time to nurture and years to develop. Painting outdoors is an emotional response towards what an artist sees but most of all feels. Without feelings a painting is merely a painting, a mechanical portrait. The day we settle and painting becomes an easy task is the day we stop growing as an artist. We stop making art we merely paint pictures.
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