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Ask yourself why (for instance) you listen to country western music while you're painting? (Does it encourage you to choose brighter colors?) Why do you leave your studio unheated even when it means working with your overcoat on? (Does it make your brushstrokes crisper?) How do you sense when the dampened paper wants to take the watercolors? (By touch? Smell? The limpness of the paper?)
— Dec 28, 2025 08:16PM
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“But where materials have potential, they also have limits. Ink wants to flow, but not across just any surface; clay wants to hold a shape, but not just any shape. And in any case, without your active participation their potential remains just that -potential. Materials are like elementary particles: charged, but indifferent.“
— Dec 28, 2025 07:33PM
