Ways to Sign Your Paintings

Your inspiration for making your art matters to people. They want to understand where your art came from. You don’t have to come right out and say it, but you can hint at it and lead people down the path that you want them to follow and let them discover it for themselves.

La question de la beauté est secondaire en peinture, les grands peintres du passé étaient considérés comme tels lorsqu'ils avaient développé du monde une vision à la fois cohérente et innovante ; ce qui signifie qu'ils peignaient toujours de la même manière, qu'ils utilisaient toujours la même méthode, les mêmes modes opératoires pour transformer l

“The first intention of the painter,” Leonardo later wrote, “is to make a flat surface display a body as if modeled and separated from this plane, and he who surpasses others in this skill deserves most praise. This accomplishment, with which the science of painting is crowned, arises from light and shade, or we may say chiaroscuro.”30 That stateme

change in the order of strokes is acceptable, as is adjusting brush strokes to suit one’s own style, and for artistic creativity. This flexibility in gyosho allows the shodo artist the opportunity to produce remarkable works. For this reason also, most Japanese calligraphy is done in gyosho, including bokuseki writings by Zen priests.