The Things Beginning and Intermediate Painters Never Hear

You can keep watching painters on tv who only paint landscapes, or flowers. Of course if you were satisfied with that, you probably wouldn’t still be reading.

You can buy many of the books out there.

Many books out there are not written by the artist. They have co-writers or editors who know nothing about painting. But they do know about writing.

They do know how to turn simple and direct talk into confusing babble that sounds impressive and fills many pages with information that could have been direct and simple.

Oil painting instruction doesn’t have to sound "mystical".

You can enroll in some expensive art school. The one I studied in, in New York City charges almost $6000 for one class for a year. But, when you do this, something happens that you never thought would...