Why You Ought to Take Progress Photographs of Your Work

I’ve taken progress photographs of just about each portray I’ve created over the previous seven years. This has been a useful behavior. Not solely does it remind me how every portray got here collectively, however it additionally helps me clear up issues that come up in my work.

Typically a portray will likely be coming collectively properly… till it’s not. In some unspecified time in the future within the portray, issues took a flip for the more severe with out me noticing. I’m positive the sensation.

That is the place progress photographs come in useful. I can look again by means of the pictures on my telephone and see the place it began to go mistaken. Maybe there was a tough edge that I by chance softened; maybe I launched a colour that doesn’t work; or maybe my brushwork received sloppy. Regardless of the case, it’s useful to know what went mistaken and when. I won’t be capable to return to that time, however the perception will assist me provide you with an answer.

One other profit is with the ability to have a look at progress photographs of your present work between classes if you’re away from the easel. I do that typically with difficult work that run over a number of classes. I’ll sometimes lie in mattress earlier than I fall asleep, have a look at the latest progress shot, and ponder my subsequent strikes. This permits me to start out the following session with momentum and an concept of what to do.

Anyway, hope you discovered this beneficial.

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Dan Scott

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