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April 13, 2004
the hard marks
The panel’s rough and worked over, the figure is drawn in, the dark is behind the edges, waiting to be light.
Now the paint must needs be applied to the figure itself. And this is the hard bit, these are the hard marks, these are the marks that give life, they are either flat or dynamic, and as yet I haven’t worked out how either come about – it’s a lottery.
I load the palette with the same colours,
get the white to the right consistency,
look at the drawings,
look at the reference,
look at the figure,
feel the flesh over the muscles,
feel the weight of the figure
the solid stance
the firm footed adherence to the ground
and
by cunning trickery
try to convey this in the insubstantial medium that is paint
and sometimes the trick works.
Posted by john at April 13, 2004 11:27 AM
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