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Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
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A (not so) novel idea
Steve,
If your paintings consistently look good when they are finished, you obviously have a very sophisticated and trained eye. You are lucky to have found that the method of "painting what you see with a very limited palette" works perfectly for you. And I would certainly enjoy seeing some of your excellent work!
However, not everyone can do what you can so easily do. If someone with a "less perfect eye" is not producing consistently good work, it would behove them to consider trying something else.
The Old Masters had an easy method they used and it is practically "lost knowledge." Unfortunately contemporary art suffers greatly because of a lack of genuine knowledge.
I think that the real "novelty" nowadays is to NOT paint what you (think) you see but to paint from genuine knowledge.
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