What is your technique?My paintings are realistic/representational, done in oil paints, often mixed with Winsor & Newton Liquin, which dries overnight, facilitating reworking. I have a poor visual memory, I love detail, and I love to portray an "instant in time" so my paintings are based on photos I've taken. For most of my career I used a non-electric slide viewer to look at slides of the subject as I painted, but I've now entered the digital age and view images on a laptop computer set up near my canvas. Although I rely on photographs as the basis of my paintings, I freely move subjects around and combine images from multiple photographs. In one large triptych of horses, I combined images from more than 2 dozen slides.
Picture credit: "Team Plus One", oil on canvas Click here to learn more about this horse oil painting
3 comments:
Kathy, thank you for this beautiful painting and for the conversation with Lynn Bishop. I also use photos as a basis for most of my paintings, but feel free to rearrange nature for the sake of the composition.
Your blog is varied and fresh--gives me new insights!
Your Aspire Art Think Tank friend,
Mary
Mary,
You are quite welcome! I love giving the artists the chance to share their inspiration with everyone.
The horses makee it look like I am really there.
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