I was thinking about this on my flight back home, I have projects that range from Gladiators, WWII, Post Apoc Zeds and Fantasy as well as a few others. I've stayed away from certain colors due to their 'complexity', so lets say for a long time white, red and black were fairly nonexistent on my minis save for small artifacts. But then I recently learned more about red while painting fantasy, more about yellow from SAGA, and more about black from WWII minis. By jumping around and painting radically different things, I think this has really helped my skills out. So I'm very proud to say I think I've graduated from 'Fairly Mediocre' to 'Ok, That's Solidly Mediocre!', which I think is great! (Yes, a bit of self deprecation, but lets be honest how great could I paint if I avoided red, black and white???)
So what about y'all? Do you think that painting in multiple genres helps or it's all bollocks and I had a couple too many scotch's.....