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I have a lot to learn about painting
      but I look at it as a lifetime of learning. At this stage, my
      drawing ability is a lot further along than my painting ability.
      Painting is a different beast but I feel confident I can get
      better at it.

      
The one significant thing I've
      learned during the past year is patience. It used to be that
      I'd lose patience during the early stages of a painting and would
      just jump to the next stage without resolving the previous stage.
      I end up with more problems later. Now, when I'm painting and
      have the urge to ditch the early stages of the painting I'd just
      remind myself to be patient and then continue with getting that
      stage completed. I also learned the virtue of patience through
      my experience with computer graphics. Some graphic artists like
      to work really fast on the computer and end up with a file that
      is difficult to revise and to process for printing. In the end
      they'll spend more time revising and redoing their file so it
      can be printed. I work the opposite way. I'll start off slowly
      in setting up the file for future possible revisions and making
      sure I created the art so that it will be printed without any
      difficulty. It's the same with what I'm trying to do with painting.
      I try to start off with a solid foundation, making sure any drawing
      and composition problem have been resolved. It makes the final
      stages of the painting a lot easier.

      

    

      
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