Make Art That is "Doing Something"
"Paint in verbs, not nouns. Don't paint it, paint it doing something." - Charles H. Woodbury Charles Woodbury was a painter who founded a great school for painting in a little fishing town in Maine. He taught many students to paint outdoors, from life in the early twentieth century. He would say to not only paint a thing, but instead, "paint it doing something." To Woodbury, accuracy was not about simply copying nature to produce a painting. He wrote, "Nine out of ten people assume that a picture is a direct imitation and that the painter has nothing to do but copy as best he [...]
