One of those tricky decisions for the en plein air artist: how much to include. Paint the portrait of every individual tile; or none of them, just a general tone for a whole roof; or somewhere in between?
Choices. Emile Zola: ‘art is nature seen through a temperament.’
Ceri, the post by John Constable is of interest to me as I am attempting to paint a view of Matera, from a photo I took. I was both inspired and disheartened by the Bliss painting, so I find some comfort in your Zola quotation though, in my case the filter is my lack of ability not my temperament.
As Reggie Perrin said “I didn't get where I am today without paying close attention to people’s tweets”. So I thought more about your Conrad quotation and then silently thanked the man in the commercial art studio in London who, when I was 17, assured me I had no talent. So I went into insurance.
An odd thing about that ‘art is long’ line is I originally came across it because Hunter S Thompson used to attribute it to Art Linkletter. I didn’t really know who AL was but I looked him up and a thing he did say was:
‘If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.’
I agree. I would find this sort of view daunting.
At least your light stays constant with a photo.
I would approach it with a delight in enjoying the doing. Many different techniques can be chosen from. Choose your favourite. I would draw it out and watercolour over.
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Choices. Emile Zola: ‘art is nature seen through a temperament.’
Another quote: apparently Joseph Conrad said, ‘art is long and life is short and success is very far off.’
I think that likely applies to most things one attempts 🙂
‘If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.’
🙂
At least your light stays constant with a photo.
I would approach it with a delight in enjoying the doing. Many different techniques can be chosen from. Choose your favourite. I would draw it out and watercolour over.