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lunatica

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1. Thanks!

Reply to BluesRunTheGame (Original post)

Thu Aug 13, 2020, 01:19 PM

Aug 2020

Although when you have no access to a lot of subjects working from photographs is a perfectly permissible activity. I’m always puzzled as to why photographs seem to be shunned. Sometimes it’s impossible to get out in nature or to have access to animals.

I do agree with him wholeheartedly about happy accidents and giving yourself permission to make mistakes and learning from them. Sometimes the mistakes are ways into adopting them into your general style.

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James Gurney - Painting Mindset: "Chaos Engine" vs. "Correction Engine" [View all] BluesRunTheGame Aug 2020 OP

Thanks! lunatica Aug 2020 #1

My first life drawing professor was a Prix de Rome winner. BluesRunTheGame Aug 2020 #2

That looks like excellent photorealism lunatica Aug 2020 #3

He painted with acrylics with little dots like Seurat's pointillism. BluesRunTheGame Aug 2020 #4

It must have taken a lot of time for each painting. lunatica Aug 2020 #5