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January 12, 2004
painting and scraping
I sit and look at the panel, I put some paint on. I look some more, I scrape the paint off [but not all of it]. I put some more paint on – I have perhaps six brushes to choose from each with a progressively darker tint from white to dark shadow. I push the paint about a bit, drawing the darkness across the light, or moving the highlights into the darkness. Always looking, always sculpting the form.
The brushes, loaded with paint, hold their history, the palette shares it; the picture, eventually, holds this history as its own story.
Posted by john at January 12, 2004 09:05 AM
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