As a painter, memory is by far your most powerful tool.
In order to quickly gain confidence and develop your own painting style you should primarily paint from memory.
You should learn to create a vision in your mind and play with the ideas - move things around, change the light - without having to sketch it out.
When you paint from memory alone, the images are more fully processed through your self.
Practice bringing to clarity a powerful memory from different depths of your past. Study your subject, memorize it, then paint it apart from the available image.
- Snap you eyes like a camera's shutter and let the image remain undisturbed in your thoughts.
- Squint and quickly pinpoint the main ideas, shapes, and path of light.
- Study the details you'll need to remember to be faithful to your vision and language - depending on how abstract, representational or real your painting will be.
This will be difficult if you haven't tried it before; you may not get at exactly what you wanted,
but don't correct it right away, see the questions you've asked and set it aside.
but don't correct it right away, see the questions you've asked and set it aside.
Then go back into nature, or back to your subject and seek your answers.
Continue to Painting From Memory, Part 2
Continue to Painting From Memory, Part 2
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