We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like.
I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
My whole purpose of taking on miniature painting was to break the tradition, to experiment with it, to find new ways of making meaning, to question the relevance of it.
Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
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