Hi Marco! I’m Emiliano. I used to create this highly rendered and dramatic artworks, but after a while I began loving this painterly, expressive, study-like, almost unfinished look in other artists artworks, including yours. So then, I began spending tons of hours rendering an artwork and then, going back, and “destroy it”, adding splashes and blending shapes all around. I find this to be a really inefficient and time consuming process. Do you have any input on how to be more “direct” in painting? Like, how do you learn to paint the final brushstroke instead of building millions of layers and then going backwards to add expression and abstraction?

Hi Marco! I’m Emiliano. I used to create this highly rendered and dramatic artworks, but after a while I began loving this painterly, expressive, study-like, almost unfinished look in other artists artworks, including yours. So then, I began spending tons of hours rendering an artwork and then, going back, and “destroy it”, adding splashes and blending shapes all around. I find this to be a really inefficient and time consuming process. Do you have any input on how to be more “direct” in painting? Like, how do you learn to paint the final brushstroke instead of building millions of layers and then going backwards to add expression and abstraction?