What Is a Painting Process? (And Why Technique Alone Will Not Give You a Style)
A painting process is the repeatable sequence of decisions that takes a painter from blank surface to finished work. Style is the byproduct, not the goal.
Notes on painting process, figurative oil painting, and the long work of developing a voice that is genuinely your own.
Style should be a byproduct of process, not a goal. Don't chase an aesthetic — build a process true to how you think, and a genuine aesthetic emerges from that.
— the premise this journal is built on
A painting process is the repeatable sequence of decisions that takes a painter from blank surface to finished work. Style is the byproduct, not the goal.