For years, and for no good reason, I have painted sitting down. Recent conversations with Linda B. have caused me to do some painting standing up. It is a much different experience for me. I find that I even hold my brushes differently, more loosely than before. And the back and forth seems to happen much more frequently which can only be a good thing. I can see advantages to standing up that I never would have considered.

This is a Vermeer which is thought to be a portrait of himself at work.

Velazquez
 

Did Velazquez do a lot of standing? Looks like a distracting place to work: Kids, dwarfs, dogs running around, and the Royal family and court watching.

How western artist Charlie Russell did it:

And how a Chinese painter atop the Great Wall worked. This just makes my knees hurt to watch it. I'd have to crawl back home at day's end.

Bouguereau
 

I'm like Bouguereau, can't make up my mind what I want to do!

Sitting Down

This one hasn't been discussed yet. :o

Last One!

And, of course, this one.

I don't think I ever noticed before, he was taking twenty years off, the little cheat!