One instructor says "be painterly", the other says "blend for smooth transition." What will I do? During the past 10 years I have tried both and have not made any specific decision on how I will paint. Today I really thought about it and looked over some of my works to see what it is that I really do. I tried to find examples of 'painterly' and 'blended' and had some difficulty. Which do you prefer? - or have you never noticed technique - just observed the work and decided whether you like it, or not. I think my work leans toward the painterly approach and I worry whether I will ever be able to paint formal portraits where the strokes are usually hidden by blending. So be it. Variety is good - hard edges and soft, nearby values and contrasting values, large and small, even or odd, see the stroke and hide it. I needed to learn the 'tools' and now I will use all of them.
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