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FourWinds F
FourWinds Jul 21, 2003 14:48:15
Replying to Jane

You know we'll do it sometime :-)

Don't ask me to paint you in the nude, because I'd have to refuse. I need to keep my socks on so I got somewhere to keep me brushes!

My drawing is fine. My problem is getting the whole of a picture good. If I get the sky cool then the trees are shite. If I get the main subject spot on then the sky is shite. And when I get an element right I seem to forget how the feck I did it! All part of the fun :-)

J Jane
Jane Jul 21, 2003 15:58:11
Replying to FourWinds

"You know we'll do it sometime :-) " hope so 4Ws, I'd really enjoy that.

I'm amazed at your statement "My drawing is fine." I'm not sure even Michelangelo would have said that! However, we all suffer from "getting the whole of a picture good."

There are passages in some of my pics that I look at an despair of, but no-one 'cept me seems to notice.

I wonder if you are struggling with it because you are seeing *individual elements* rather than the *whole composition*. If you are thinking to yourself "now I'll do the trees, now I'll do the sky, now I'll do the distance", etc", instead of thinking "now I'll do the greens, now I'll look at depth, now I'll consider contrast, now I'll think of expression"

just a thought...