Painting in Oil: How to Sit

If you're tired, or for any reason find it difficult to stand, then, of course, you must sit. But if you have to sit, try using a high stool if you can. There is a definite advantage in this. For one thing, when you're sitting too comfortable in a chair it's not so easy to get up often to move back for a better look at your canvas. It must be remembered that no one looks at a painting at close range unless he is terribly nearsighted. Most people stand off from a work of art in order to judge it in the totality of all its parts. Too much sublety in the painting, especially in the early stages of development, will be lost on the viewer.