8x10
Had another go at the Inverie cove, wetter, fewer details.
I painted this looking at my previous painting, not at the reference photo.
An idea I got from reading about Richard Diebenkorn. He attended life drawings classes and did his figure paintings from the sketches he made in class, not from a sitter. This degree of separation for me opens space to, I don't know, follow the painting.
This is a great little book of Diebenkorn's
Drawings.
This is gorgeous! It works for you. I’ve found, too, that it’s a good way to separate oneself from the tightness of a photo or scene by painting from the painting - not sure why but maybe you see what you might have done differently and do it :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rhonda. It really is a good way to, to paraphrase someone, "escape the tyranny" of the photo!
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