Whether your work is rough and painterly or smooth and detailed, painting is all about creating a surface and controlling it. You can be as loose and painterly as you like, as long as your strokes are 'felt' as a surface.
It is a paradox that the more your paint creates the illusion of a surface, the better it can depict whatever depth you choose to depict, even a deep space. Why is this?
Painting is all about accessing the non-verbal part of your brain. If you look at a chair, you 'know' it is a chair and you can skip a lot of the experience of looking. In painting that chair, however, most (but not all) artists want to say something about actually looking at and experiencing something about that chair. If you 'skip' areas of your painting, viewers are forced to fill in with their knowledge and memory instead of actually experiencing anything new. Knit your painting together like a quilt, and a miracle will happen.
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