painting practice


[painting sketchbook, 18 april 2014]

over the easter holiday break i started a new [larger] sketchbook and practiced some painting. these studies are my practice paintings. this painting looks like it could be a path through to a woodland glade.

paint what you see; paint what you feel; paint what you like;

or paint like no-one’s watching…

This entry was written by Jazz, posted on April 30, 2014 at 6:59 am, filed under artist journal and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Comments

  1. Jazz
    Posted April 30, 2014 at 7:22 am | Permalink

    some advice on the correct usage of ‘practice’ and ‘practise’ (in british english): similar to advice (noun) and advise (verb)

    so, in this example, it should really be: i ‘practised’ some painting; with practice the paintings might get better.

    i will take further advice on this matter because it can be confusing…

  2. Jazz
    Posted May 26, 2014 at 5:37 pm | Permalink

    scratch that [paintwork]… in critical art world terms, the contemporary practice of painting is referred to as ‘praxis’ – eg. the theory and praxis of contemporary painting