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A comment Lew has just made on one of my pics I posted today on the gallery, has made me stop and think. Plus I think the poem I posted earlier may have some bearing on my thoughts.
Lews comment was the gallery has so much work on it in styles he would/ could not attempt to do (
Lew I’m sorry if I have your comment all wrong) .
But if I have understood the gist of his comment thegallery is so full of innumerable styles of work. How is it possible that we don’t all go down the same or similar road and produce the same type of work. I know we are all individual but still it’s pretty amazing that we are all so different.
I suppose the nearest to similarities are botanical paintings as it seems to be more of a set formula and the subject matter is narrow.
Perhaps we are all the lucky ones who were taught to think for ourselves and not taught to paint a red flower with a green stem.
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I was thinking along these lines earlier, albeit to do with the impassability of God...light subject!
Styles, what is good, bad, nice or harsh...all very personal and heaven knows where they come.from or why. Im glad they do though.
I think I once painted a red flower with a green stem...a tulip. It really was red with a green stem.
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My art teacher was fantastic really, he let us do our own thing and was a relaxed child of the 60's, empathic and easy going. I was into computer animation at the time which was very basic in the early 90's but whatever we did he was supportive.
Alas I only did 1 year of my A-levels due to the inflexibility of my head of year on the matter of a voluntary subscription for a business journal that turned out not to be voluntary at all.
Like all fields you have your good and your bad, my teachers were certainly polarised into the very good and the very bad.
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Sylvia. It's interesting that you said you framed the sketch I commented on...I meant it would be hard to improve on it, and you didn't try. Had I attempted a sketch like that I would have gone on fiddling with it and lost the spontaneity. You have the ability to know when enough is enough. One attraction of art is that we all produce different results. As far as sketches go, I've often made a sketch in preparation for a painting, and when it's done I preferred the sketch. Not easy, this art lark.
It occurs to me there's a similarity between the slight differences that give us own different styles...and the human face. As someone who is always drawing faces I've often wondered why we don't all look the same. We've all seen those facial proportion diagrams...you know...the bottom of the nose is halfway between the eye-line and the chin (for example). I'm amazed how often this holds true...you can have a big nose, small nose, turned up nose, flat nose, or a nose like a door-knob...and the bottom of it will invariably be halfway between the eye-line and the chin. It's only tiny, fiddly differences in the facial proportions that give us different faces. That's why portraiture is so hard.
So it is with art style...tiny differences can make a BIG difference. And isn't that just great!!