If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision. - Nelson Shanks
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.
- Nelson Shanks
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern. - Nelson Shanks
A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.
I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical… - Nelson Shanks
I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical…
I'm drawing in my head pretty much. - Nelson Shanks
I'm drawing in my head pretty much.
If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses. - Nelson Shanks
We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many technique… - Nelson Shanks
We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many technique…
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like … - Nelson Shanks
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like …
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subje… - Nelson Shanks
Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subje…
There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll j… - Nelson Shanks
There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll j…
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