Tom, as always, thank you for your feedback!
Patricia, I'm sure you will enjoy the Rives paper. Thanks.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Allan Rahbek
David, I have looked at your drawing several times and found my self listening to the whispering from the sensitive, delicate nuances in the face, and every time wondered about the punch of them.
|
Allan, I have spent the last few hours musing on what you wrote. I may be completely misreading what you intended, but let me try: I took what you wrote as a critique - a very insightful, valuable and welcome critique. As I see it, my strengths are all about capturing subtlety, the "delicate nuances" as you put it, but I wonder if I am missing or neglecting something that is at least as important, the
immediacy that I see in work I admire, the "punch" as it were. I think this drawing has some nice aspects to it, but I feel - as I do with most of my work - that it lacks something, that maybe it's too refined, too polished. And I am guessing that the real problem is that I am - once again - copying a photograph. I think if I were drawing this girl from life it would be an entirely different experience - and result. So, I thank you from my inmost heart for your penetrating and insightful response to my work. Even if this is nothing close to what you meant!
Thank you!