Easel painting means small painting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Usually when painters use photographs, they enlarge and copy them and simply make a large, boring painting of a large, boring photograph.
The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
The substance of painting is light.
Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.
My painting does not come from the easel.