What Is One Session Painting?

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On behalf of Expert Village.com, I'm Vince Fazio at the Sedona art center and I'm here to tell you about oil painting, one session paintings. There are a number of reasons to do one session paintings, and one reason is to do them as studies for larger paintings. Doing a one session small painting forces you to generalize and forces the painting down to its basic compositional elements and that is what you need to know when you go into a larger painting. So in a way, a one session painting can be a sketch for a larger painting. It's also a great exercise for a painter to learn these basics of composition. There is a market for one session paintings. There's miniature shows all over the country and there are in fact on the web, a number of places where people sell one session paintings as daily paintings. They do a painting a day. There's a lot of different venues, subject matter and so on that you can use in one session paintings. I'm going to introduce three of them and then we're going to do one. This is one version of a one session painting. You go outdoors and you set up your materials and you paint directly from life as quickly as possible. The light's going to change quickly, and so you have to work quickly. That is, in itself, is a good way to work, a good way to learn about painting, paint quickly.

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