What is necessary, however, is a passion for excellence, discipline and an unflinching desire to pursue truth. When I teach, I try to transmit the information in a way that I feel is easiest to comprehend. The complex tasks of drawing and painting become more manageable when broken into their composite parts. An analogy can be made between art and the human form. With human anatomy each part of the body is of great importance to the working of the whole, even a seemingly insignificant part has purpose and value.
Art also is made up of many parts, the neglect of any one works to the detriment of the whole piece.
Drawing and painting can be broken down into numerous subtexts such as design, value, hue, chroma, line quality and the list can easily continue. I also think it is necessary to look individually at the paradoxes of drawing and how to pull them together. For example, the beginning phase where detail must be sacrificed for design and gesture in order for the work to have visual power. And the end phase where each area must be specifically seen and rendered or the work will look generic and flat. Learning to be an artist is a difficult and exciting feat and I would love to point people towards that incredible journey of which I am only at the beginning.