Tip: Developing Personal Art Style

Lynn Burton: Segment of "Swan Lake Reflections" Showing hard and soft edges
Lynn Burton: Segment of “Swan Lake Reflections”

“How can I find my creative self, a way to discover my own style?” Every artist in their own way seeks liberating experiences, and in the quest for their artistic success, asks this question. fearing to be different, some never find the answer to their questions, choosing to paint the same as everyone else, following whatever is popular.

Lynn Burton: Flower and Vase - Oil on Canvas
Lynn Burton: Flower and Vase – Oil on Canvas

All artists become influenced by other artists, especially the ones that are famous and successful in their time. There is nothing negative about this, it is a natural learning and growing process. However, individualizing approach to painting is more than accepting a technique of style as ones own. It is understanding and deciding upon a preference for a particular medium, perceiving form, “feeling” color, and learning to combine these and other expressive design elements to become one’s own experience.

Learning to see the world with one’s own eyes instead  of a teacher, or another, is the way to begin the private journey an artist must make if they desire to find “personal style”. It is the beginning of a gradual and internal self expression, and as long as it is a mirror of one’s self, it will be the correct path to success.

R. D. Burton: "Old Woodie" (2012)
R. D. Burton: “Old Woodie” (2012)

 

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