Sit-down or stand-up to paint?

[Mike McCarty]

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.

[Michele Rushworth]

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

[Lynn T. McCallum]

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.

[Steven Sweeney]

How western artist Charlie Russell did it:

[Steven Sweeney]

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.

[Mike Dodson]

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

[Mike Dodson]

Sitting Down

[Mike Dodson]

This one hasn't been discussed yet.

[Mike Dodson]

Last One!

[Jeff Fuchs]

And, of course, this one.

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