Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Thomasin Dewhurst
The beginnings of a work, I feel, are essentially honest and revealing of just where you are as an artist, and so I am trying to leave beginnings showing or keep all marks the beginning ones, just working on composition and narrative i.e. keeping the marks really the means to the resulting painting and not making them the end in themselves.
|
It is seldom I agree with an opinion 100%. This is one of those few times. In my own work, I have felt many times that the initial first stains and marks on the canvas came closer to what I was after than the actual finished piece. I personally think that the "artist" or "author" is more evident in his notebooks or sketchbooks. I am more attracted to studies in charcoal, pen, pencil or watercolour or even oil studies than finished, polished, framed pieces. I have always felt that the initial stages of a painting have a certain affinity to the notebooks and sketchbooks, only larger, and I think that it is 90% of the creative process. The remaining 10% that, at least in my case is put in to please the client (or I don