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Why do I find it necessary to paint so quickly?
Why do I find it necessary to paint so quickly?
Quite a few POL members have expressed astonishment at how quickly I complete a painting, I refer particularly to 'London Skyline from Shooters Hill', oil on canvas, 24 x 30''. Total time 70 minutes.
Basically, I don't find it much more time consuming than painting a small canvas, I just scale everything up accordingly, brush sizes, amount of paint on the palette etc. I do it for the adrenaline rush that is inevitable working to a deadline. Also, it stops me fiddling around with detail and the end result is a more spontaneous look to the finished piece.
It probably all stems back to my career as editorial artist for the Daily Mail Group, working between ten and twelve hours a day, constantly having to hit deadlines, one of the reasons I retired early at 55.
So, I can now take as much time as I like over a painting - trouble is, I'm happy working this way and I can't change.
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