Can you have to many irons in the fire?
Can I have so many paintings in process?
Is it okay to have so much going on?
I get these ideas.
And it’s exciting to get an idea.
I just have to run with them for awhile so I drop every thing else I’m working on.
I take the idea and put it down on paper and visually create what was once in my head.
From there to the canvas
The little time I can create I create
It is a delight.
finished or not.
And this is what makes my life.
All time favorite postcard
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
If cats could talk…they wouldn’t
Dan Porter
Is there is a thought process required for working big?
The primary reason for creating large-scale oil paintings is the potential for expressing a sense of power.
A degree of exaggeration is required when painting on a large-scale canvas.
A huge composition with massive figures and images facilitating some sort of monumental event or picture.
It’s an opportunity to paint a biblical theme.
Are we living in a post-Christian America?
Large brushes and loose brushes strokes and entailed with subtle detail.
Gathering information and references.
Simplifying the composition as you work through the preliminary sketch and rough value and color studies.
Artist job is to select, eliminate, move, enlarge and shrink elements, placing them in shadows or light to create the best painting.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.”
― Roman Payne
I think being alone in your studio with a canvas, a photo and too much time is a recipe for over working your painting or adding too much detail.
Some artists possess an innate skill but few have a tenacious determination to keep at it and solve the problem. That leads to artistic break throughs.
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