Artist - Part 20 - The End is Near….

Well the beginning of the end is near… I hope.

I see something in my mind’s eye that I’ve never noticed before… something that should add some needed oomph to my painting.

… that’s the easy part, seeing something new for the first time, that I could have overlooked all my life.

… the hard part is being able to physically put the oil paint on the canvas the way I see it in my mind’s eye.

Some of the artist’s I like make every inch of the canvas interesting…well, I don’t. I want to.

To put it another way, whenever I did photography or video I could make an image interesting. I watch any film by Robert Zemeckis and I am amazed by his attention to detail and how EVERY SHOT IS IMPORTANT, detailed and the utmost care is taken to get it right. This first hit home to me when I read Zemeckis was on the set of Speilberg’s ET and suggested the that ET should be in the closet with the stuffed animals and overlooked by the mother as the camera pans across the stuffed toys. Brilliant, every shot and scene should be brilliant… like a painting.

I’ve done a basic line drawing and last night did a wash for some of the background, it’s taken me a week to get the nerve to start. I hope to get a block of time Wednesday evening to do some real damage on the canvas.