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The things we do when we're not paying attention (or self-confoundment as practiced by moi).
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I painted this picture. It looked OK at the drawing stage. Then I drew it properly with ink, thinking it was still OK. Mixed media later, almost finished, I stood back and thought something's wrong.
This is this pic...
Now...I'm not going to leave it at that and let you lot tell me what's wrong....with my luck, you'll find stuff I haven't seen. And then I'll feel I need to pack it all in and take up collecting tram tickets.
But I'll give you a little bit longer.....
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That's long enough.
His right arm, resting on the post is wrong...or rather, the post is too far away from his body. If you look at the planks he's standing on, the bottom of the post should be at least one plank nearer his fact (Or the hand/arm resting on the post should be more stretched out away from his body.)
Something you can only do in a drawing when you're not paying attention.
Bloop/bleep/blurp/blaaahhh...pardon my language.
Now...I'm not going to leave it at that and let you lot tell me what's wrong....with my luck, you'll find stuff I haven't seen. And then I'll feel I need to pack it all in and take up collecting tram tickets.
But I'll give you a little bit longer.....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
That's long enough.
His right arm, resting on the post is wrong...or rather, the post is too far away from his body. If you look at the planks he's standing on, the bottom of the post should be at least one plank nearer his fact (Or the hand/arm resting on the post should be more stretched out away from his body.)
Something you can only do in a drawing when you're not paying attention.
Bloop/bleep/blurp/blaaahhh...pardon my language.
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I wonder if I'd EVER have seen that, if you hadn't pointed it out; I can certainly see it now, though. I watched a video today on Youtube by an American professor (I think she is, anyway) whose voice annoyed the be-Jesus out of me, but that's by the way.... She showed many paintings in which mistakes had been made, but which still worked - it was an interesting video, I just wish my silly prejudices over American voices (particularly softly spoken American voices: which are to me what fingernails scraping glass are to others) hadn't made it hard to listen to. But the fact that I DID listen to it proves its quality. Even if she did pronounce Ingres as 'Ingriz' - my least favourite pronunciation other than Van Go for van Gogh..... sidetracked, me? Yup.
Point is - the best of us, even the very very best of us, make mistakes: but if the overall picture works, only the critics will notice (and most of them aren't worth paying attention to). You have a VERY good eye, though, Lew; and I apologize for the element of vent and rant in this post, but I am on this evening's third gin and tonic.
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That sounds an interesting video, Robert. Yes, we all make mistakes, even the greats. One of my favorite paintings is Manet's 'A bar at the Folie Bergere', and that's supposedly riddled with errors. I think most of them are the artist thinking he'll do things his way. The only 'error' in that painting (for me), is the fact that the bottom frame of the mirror behind the bar-girl doesn't line up.
Another famous error is in Caravaggio's 'Supper at Emmaus' below....
...this is well known, for anybody who hasn't spotted it...look at the man on the right with outspread arms. The hand furthest away from us is bigger than the hand nearest us. Experts put this down to the fact that Caravaggio used camera obscura techniques in a darkened studio. It's definitely an error, but it doesn't seem to have harmed the fame of this painting.
So...far, far, FAR removed from these great artists, I'll attempt to correct the error on my picture. Making it was a combination of things. Not standing back often enough as Marjorie said, getting hunched down over the picture thinking about the picture I'm going to do next rather than what I'm doing, drawing it from imagination...had I copied this from somewhere, I probably wouldn't have made the error.
Only one thing is certain...I'll do it again.
...this is well known, for anybody who hasn't spotted it...look at the man on the right with outspread arms. The hand furthest away from us is bigger than the hand nearest us. Experts put this down to the fact that Caravaggio used camera obscura techniques in a darkened studio. It's definitely an error, but it doesn't seem to have harmed the fame of this painting.
So...far, far, FAR removed from these great artists, I'll attempt to correct the error on my picture. Making it was a combination of things. Not standing back often enough as Marjorie said, getting hunched down over the picture thinking about the picture I'm going to do next rather than what I'm doing, drawing it from imagination...had I copied this from somewhere, I probably wouldn't have made the error.
Only one thing is certain...I'll do it again.
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I must have numerous mistakes in mine and if I looked I to closely, well, let's say, the children collecting for bonfire night would have plenty of material to keep the fire going. Not that I know that much about art yet, mistakes are a part of human nature and I think mistakes can add to a painting. Sometimes things don't have to be perfect. Caravaggio, I was reading about his life and work recently. His work is my favorite of all. Off course you can tell me I'm talking nonsense.
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