Study your subject thoroughly before picking up a brush. See your subject only in terms of the tools painters have: colour, shape, form, line, value, texture, soft and hard edges, relationships between the shapes, etc. To paint like a painter you must see like a painter ... that is, not to see trees, water, sky, buildings, people, etc., because these things are not in the painters toolbox. We must move totally away from names and see only colour, shape, value, form, etc. When you no longer see 'names' of things in your subject, you are ready to paint. And you will see your subject as if it were 'already painted' even before you begin ... the rest is easy.
Tip from: Brian Simons.
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