“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.
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“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.”