How big should I paint my art?

[@colettebegg1946]

Tim, I always find your video content so genuine, encouraging and helpful! Your authentic generosity in educating aspiring or novice artist's is outstanding. You keep it real and tell it like it is. I have been following you for many years and you never disappoint! Thank you!

[@timpackerfinearts]

Thanks so much for the comment Collette. Glad you have found the videos helpful😊👍🙏

[@watercolourartincapetown2919]

Big paintings are intimidating, not to mention that they cost considerably more resources (time, canvas price, art supplies..) so I’ve definitely scaled down to more modest and manageable sizes

[@timpackerfinearts]

When and if you decide you want to move to bigger canvasses... I found it best to increase the size gradually and once you get comfortable with a slightly bigger size... then to increase again slightly. Eventually the big canvasses become less intimidating😊👍

[@ArtByAnobel]

This is all true but when you’re ready you will get there. Maybe you’re not ready for that yet. Also, his statements are true, you can learn a lot more when you paint small and more of them. I sell a lot of smalls at the holidays as well. They are great for gifts.

[@prnobbs3262]

All great advice. I'll add that investment in materials has to scale up with the size of the finished painting. Bigger canvas, more paint and additives. Sad to see aspiring artists waste expensive materials.

[@timpackerfinearts]

👍😊

[@ArtByAnobel]

Your pace of speech and authenticity is refreshing. New subscriber. TY. I’m a sponge and looking forward to more of your videos.

[@timpackerfinearts]

love to hear that ❤😊

[@joanstanton7901]

Very good advice , I used to paint bigger when younger. Sold a few back then. I am a much older and a hobby artist and like that classification for my art. I show and hope my art sells because my walls are full(Dad was artist, I have daughter who paint too) and so I paint in hopes someone with smaller house might like it on their wall. I paint birds and animals. Sold some of my small paintings in the last few years. I just love paintings birds and animals. Largest I have painted so far at my older age is 12x16 and others 8x10, 9x12. I do it relaxation and creative expression and show for fun and hope that someone will like one enough to put it on their wall in their little house! Before this I had never been in juried show. I have been in several the past few years and have sold some. Learned my painting are character paintings from a buyer. I like that too. I think that is pretty accurate. All I know is they are real fun to create and paint. My inspiration come from my own photographs I take of those critters. Sometimes they are a composition of several photo's. I paint in gouache and and have started painting again recently in water mixable oils. Use to paint in real oils😃 some 20ish years ago, I have a few big on my walls.😀

[@timpackerfinearts]

the great thing about art is that it can just be a hobby... or a vocation... or anywhere on that continuum... and that can c change during the various stages of our life :) You can't do that with hockey 😁

[@M.Campbell]

Thank you for mentioning that you need to scale up your brushes too. I had a good laugh when I once watched an artist on KZbin really struggle with a large painting. He's a good artist but this was obviously the largest painting he'd ever attempted. The canvas looked to be about 8 feet wide and probably 6 feet tall. He was using his normal brushes, the largest being, at most, two inches wide. He complained for most of the video about how long it was taking.

[@timpackerfinearts]

You only have to do that a few times before buying bigger brushes😂👍

[@homayounamaniArt]

Sir honestly I can say you are amazing Artist, I learnt a lot from your advices

[@timpackerfinearts]

@@homayounamaniArt love to hear that 😊❤️👍

[@MW-hn7wx]

Great practical advice! I’m glad I’ve heard this!

[@timpackerfinearts]

Love to hear that 😊👍

[@leonormartinez6378]

Very valuable information. Thank you Tim!

[@timpackerfinearts]

@@leonormartinez6378 my pleasure 😊🙏

[@triconcert]

Excellent advice so well delivered. Thanks Tim!

[@timpackerfinearts]

absolutely my pleasure

[@joao_belmont]

Great video as always Tim. Good to see you

[@timpackerfinearts]

😊👍

[@cchemmes-seeseeart3948]

Thanks for the info. I never thought about the simple idea you will need big paint brushes to go along with your big painting. Do you have any videos about that? I think I need to do a 3rd option. Experiment small, & create small compositions, for style development, but only at a more crude study level. Then, practice small any particular item that might need practice for the composition. But then seek to use the small works as my studies for a larger painting. I'm at a peculiar stage at the moment, having gone to art college, yet derailed recently from my own art, by a lot of life 'stuff.' I'm still developing my style, so need to do a lot of small work, but I've done a lot of successful small work, like getting A's in art college, showing i can do it... with realism. But I don't want to paint the same as art school, with full realism. A library book on a favorite artist thankfully shows his process. He would paint massive, wall size paintings that involve some realism, yet abstraction/ free creativity. But they were first worked out as very small collage works. This video was a good chance to think this through

[@timpackerfinearts]

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[@cchemmes-seeseeart3948]

@@timpackerfineartsI'm only using youtube resources at this time, not paid courses; not an option. Thanks anyways.

[@timpackerfinearts]

@@cchemmes-seeseeart3948 I’ve got lots of KZbin 😊👍

[@cchemmes-seeseeart3948]

@@timpackerfinearts Thanks

[@innocentgray7918]

I paint medium and large because I am a natural artist

[@jackiegarroutte8970]

Thank you!!

[@timpackerfinearts]

My pleasure😊👍

[@kathleen8092]

My apartment dictates my sizes at the moment 😔

[@timpackerfinearts]

There was a time when my kitchen table dictated the size of my art 😂😉👍

[@nielsybernal1265]

Thank you Sr. Are you familiar with Cervando Cabrera Moreno’s art

[@timpackerfinearts]

No but I will check it out👍

[@nielsybernal1265]

@@timpackerfinearts he was my neighbor in Cuba. I want to go back to painting

[@timpackerfinearts]

@@nielsybernal1265 no time like the present 👍🖌😉

[@ShawnQuiQui57]

every time he says I made 2 million dollars I just get so depressed. It's like I could live a thousand lives and I will probably never see 1 million dollars. Born poor die poor here in the Midwest

[@triconcert]

LOL! Stay positive! Acceptance is half the battle won and we should always seek to be content. I'll share Sir Edward Dyer's poem with you, from 1588: "My mind to me a kingdom is/ Such perfect joy therein I find/ That excels all earthly bliss/ That God or nature hath assign'd/ Though much I want what most would have/ Yet still my mind forbids to crave....."

[@Taboloncawonthemasters]

Made over 1.5 million being a service advisor for about 12.5 years of my time!! 401k that is well over 1.5 by itself. Also another 2 investment accounts for myself. 401k for my wife that is worth over 1.9 itself and another single investment besides that one. I am 27 and she is 30. We both did this with our own money! Bought a house in cash and remodeled the entire thing at once and I did all The work myself. Own all 3 of our vehicles. 2012, 2006 and 2023. About to open my business and still continuing to flip homes and remodel for business. All learned on our own!!

[@agneskumonart]

Thank you so much!

[@timpackerfinearts]

My pleasure 😊👍