“Good paintings teach a watercolorist very little,” says Iain Stewart. “It’s the bad paintings that instruct me how to improve my work because I have to look critically at them to identify the reasons they failed.
“Too many artists focus on creating masterpieces, and they are crushed when they are not successful. In my experience as a painter and teacher, our work is more successful when we risk failure, paint with abandon, and then evaluate the results.”
