05-08-2024, 03:42 AM
I agree about introducing more textured brushwork into your work. I used to be into the really smooth, clean, and detailed look when I was a young artist, but once I discovered the impressionist-influenced painters like Sargent, Sorolla, and Zorn, their work was just so much more dynamic and expressive than the super clean and smooth painters I used to try to emulate. Ever since then I've been working my way towards that more expressive painting style. Of course this is highly subjective, because there's no authority claiming the more painterly style is by default superior. But there are objective points in the favor of the more expressive painting style, such as much more dynamic sense of edge variety, textures, selective detailing, and incorporating a sense of serendipity in the more abstract elements created by expressive brushwork.