I recall this incident from my school time. I was very fond of drawing and painting back then. At school, every week we would get one assignment. Next week our teacher would give us marks out of ten.
We were just being initiated into water-colors and shading. So this time we were asked to paint a flower in water-color. Got me excited. So I painted not one but two flowers using all sorts of colors. Thought I had done a good job.
In contrast, this friend of mine got it done by his sister. One thin-sort-of flower. Didn't seem a lot of color.
When the teacher came around to check our paintings and give ratings, this friend of mine scored very high. Almost 10, I remember. And I scored just 8.
Curious as always about what went wrong and what made the thin-sort-of flower so great, I questioned my teacher.
He explained the thin-sort-of flower didn't use any color for white, instead it took the white of the paper to show the white shade. There was minimal use of color to bring out the beauty of the flower. Against this, I had actually used white color to show the white in the flower. I thought the greater the number of colors I use, the greater the nuances of shading I would bring out.
Besides, where one flower would have done the job, I made two. Only one would have done. And it was the second one, which I painted later, which was not rendered well and, as a result, which reduced the beauty of the painting and the other flower alongside.
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