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Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell
As to working from sketches, not many of us have the training to do it today. I know I don't.
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Sharon, given the level of your work, I fiind that statement intriguing. What sort of training do you envision as being necessary?
I would say that I very rarely work directly from the life, "painting what I see". Almost everything I do is "frankensteined" together from sketches, memory, imagination, photo references, and the great difficulty I have is to make it "flow". The usual flaw is a sense of being contrived, or a "wooden" aspect, even if glaring errors of scale and perspective have been avoided.
(What a great topic!)