After putting it off for a few years, I am finally starting the painting I promised my daughter and giving it to her for her 30th birthday. So I thought it would be fun to take you on the journey with me! J oin me as we dive into a real-world example of how you start a painting and keep it your own when it’s meant for someone else. -Nicholas Wilton Founder, Art2Life | Art2Life
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You know what my favorite part of this painting is? It is not the perfect areas or the big bold marks. It is the places where things were covered up. All the decisions that did not work out. Those spots end up giving the painting depth and richness. They hold the history of what was tried. It is always that way. The parts that felt like mistakes often become the best part of the work. | Nicholas Wilton
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Starting this new 72” x 72 painting today. Possibilities are wide open. | Nicholas Wilton
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Starting this new 72” x 72 painting today. Possibilities are wide open…
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We just finished painting the whole studio white: floors, walls, everything. But these support blocks... I couldn’t bring myself to paint over them. They’re covered in years of drips, color, and layers of old paintings. I use them constantly to prop up work, adjust height, or just keep things off the floor. They’re nothing fancy—6 inches by 6 inches, about 20 inches long—but they’re better than any paint can or crate. I’ve got about ten of them, and honestly, they’ve become part of the story of
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I never overly focus on one painting when building a new body of work for a show. Instead I restrain the urge to finish anything. The longer I can stand staying in the uncertain, experimental stage the better the outcome. It’s what I coach but also what I practice, but it takes a degree of discipline to resist going after results too soon. Does this make sense to you? | Nicholas Wilton
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Final glaze on this painting. Even though the marks were done at different points in time, the glaze seals everything in one moment. | Nicholas Wilton
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Final glaze on this painting. Even though the marks were done at dif…
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Today I was working on this painting. I kept going back and forth between being tight and then letting go and just letting the paint do what it wants. I realized after thinking it should be only one way that actually it can be both. I need both states in my art. It’s how I express this contrast that makes my work mine. It’s a confusing thing that I am still learning. I wonder if there are others who share this challenge. Do you know what I am talking about? I would love to hear in the Comments.
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