Life Is A Gift. Accept It.
By: brownivy
Category: Abstract, Ink, Sketch Verite
| Aperture: | f/2.9 |
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| Focal Length: | 5.8mm |
| ISO: | 128 |
| Shutter: | 1/14 sec |
| Camera: | T1060 |
Sometimes, when I’m drawing/painting, something very interesting happens.
I begin with a simple picture: in my head, from a photo, carefully arranged right in front of me, etc
From this picture, I attempt to replicate and interpret what I see.
However, every time, every single time, there is a fork in the road. A point in which what I’m painting *stops* being a copy of a subject, and becomes a subject of its own, complete with its own separate stories, nuances, reference points. In fact, by this stage, I’m barely even looking at the original object, as the two have split so far apart from each other that their relation has become moot. Everything I need to know about shadows, highlights, color has already been mapped out on the World that has been created on the canvas.
And that tells me all I need to know.
The picture in my head, the original plan was an idea, a beautiful idea.
The finished painting, however, doesn’t look quite like it.
It never does.
It’s either more abstract, darker, more colorful, bigger, more minimalist, less *something*, than I thought it would be.
But it always seems looks *feels* right.
Feels more right than the picture in my head.
And it always makes me smile: sometimes from joy, sometimes in melancholy, but always with sincerity.
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