Looking at Andrew Wyeth and Robert Batemen books on art always inspire me. To see their paintings up close is to see such attention to detail. And yet I long for the ability to rip one off like Van Gogh or Tom Thompson. Those artist make it look so easy.
I suspect it is somewhere in the middle for both styles of painting.
I once saw Robert Bateman mix up a cup of white acrylic paint and throw it on what I would have thought was a finished painting. It gave the raging elephant a look of kicking up dusty. It was perfect.
While painting with my friend S’ine and Diane at Waterworks Park in St Thomas on Thursday I felts the excitement of painting en plain air. Rushing the work, I forgot about detail and thought only about capturing the colour before the light changed. It was exhilarating
Here is the finish sketch and a photo of the place. How did I do?
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