| Re: Fantasy Cat. | ||
by Stephen Shires ![[sms SITOme]](/sue/imgs/sueid/suebar-sms-id.gif) ![[email Stephen Shires]](/synergy/imgs/ico-email.gif) |
2000-09-17 17:23:11 | [565] |
| Thanks for the appreciation. Unfortunately, due to spending an excessive amount of time working 'from nature' (c.30 years) I find it easier to rely on the vitality of the subject than to work on my own response to it. Blame it on boring commissions. Anyway, having short sight, corrected by lenses in both eyes until recently, I did not realise that my work from life lacked depth (spectacles are particularly bad at wiping out the binocular vision effect). As a result, a 'pub painting' like 'The Smack', Whitstable, produced away from the subject can be given an imaginary depth that I could not observe when sketching it. Similar comments could be applied to the purely imaginary stuff. And, of course, to give something depth, you must get INVOLVED with it, a pre-requisite for any serious piece of artwork and any sense of vitality within it. | ||
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