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Interesting to see how different artists build up their paintings - your approach has much in common with one of the standard old master processes, building up from monochrome; although there are going to be subsequent differences I believe: whereas they might have taken the underpainting to completion, and then glazed over it with transparent colour, you're going to go in with opaque colour, I think?
Anyway, whatever you do - it's looking good.
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You say on another thread that someone has described your work as photo-realistic - I don't think it is: it's realistic, yes, but it doesn't have that deadening attention to every single detail that the real photorealist has.
To give you an example of that - I can't find the painting, fortunately or otherwise - there is a German painter who specializes, for reasons of his own, in painting portraits from photographs of Third Reich era German officers. I saw a film of him working, around ten or more years ago: not only does he paint what you'd expect, the medals, ribbons, orders etc, but painstakingly, obsessively, and to my mind neurotically, he paints every fibre of the cloth, or medal ribbon: you can see the stitching in his work, he paints everything the human eye can see and much that it simply couldn't. I can't remember his name and haven't heard of him in recent years; it wouldn't surprise me to hear he'd driven himself mad.
You don't do that - you paint what you see, but you don't take a microscope to detail, or a magnifying glass to fabric: I'd be a bit worried for your eyesight and state of mind if you did. Yours is a much more painterly approach - if our German painter had done the above, for instance, you'd see every pore on the man's hand, the nap on the cloth of his uniform. You're a realist, a figurative painter, but you're not trying to achieve forensic detail. I think that's a good thing, by the way - just in case I wasn't clear: a painting that looks high a very high resolution photograph isn't my idea of art.
I look forward to seeing the finished painting, but I can see you're well within reach of the finishing post - it's been interesting to see how you got there.
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I too look forward to the finished article. It is odd, subject wise, but I have been eyeing what I believe is called a moquette. It's a paper, wire and glued model about 30cms tall for a wood carving of a Tommy, complete with fag. I thought it would be good things to work a painting round it, we had been viewing the Jutland ceremonies and whilst not particularly relevant it caught my eye, so I may have a go at it.
It will be nothing as detailed as this smashing piece but I hope the shapes, colours and pose will come across, I will include a photo of the model. I was at an craft exhibition years back and demonstrating watercolours, many other crafts in the tent and go talking to one of the blokes who as I expressed so much delight in this humorous and lifelike work he gave me it. Never did see the wood carving he did.
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