Artists speak. (Obama portraits) Tweet

[Nittersing]

Sorry I don't know how to post the video separately from the tweet

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[allegorical oracle]

1. Lovely -- thank you so much for posting this.

[phylny]

2. That was great - thank you!

[LoisB]

3. That was very interesting. Thank you.

[pinkstarburst]

4. So talented. Both of those

portraits are outstanding.

[BlueGreenLady]

5. Wow!

Both gorgeous works of art! Thanks for posting.

[sheshe2]

6. Thank you!

[niyad]

7. Thank you. Hearing from the artists, their visions, was most interesting.

[lunatica]

8. Thanks for this!

I love the things the artists said about what they wanted to achieve. They were absolutely successful!

The paintings are wonderful! Wow!

[onecaliberal]

9. ❤️ I love this so much.

[BigmanPigman]

10. As an illustrator I find the drive for perfection

a killer of art. I don't know of a single artist who isn't a perfectionist and that is our downfall. That one tiny, little imperfection that only the artist is aware of drives us insane and we become obsessed with it. We ruin so many works of art by having that need to make it perfect...which of course it can never be.

I have gone back to "correct" a minuscule part of a piece only to find myself redoing the whole thing 6 hours later, making it worse. Walking away and letting it stay as is is the key.

[lunatica]

13. I Hear you!

As an artist I know what you mean, but I’ve found that sometimes the one tiny correction I’ve made that ruins the painting turns out to be the correction that starts a whole new painting. My view is that the painting you are working on has many endings, or is finished many times. The artist simply has to decide when the painting is finished and leave it be, or run the risk of having to start all over again.

There’s more flexibility in thinking like this. And our mistakes and failures are our greatest teachers.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. Thanks!

[Chellee]

12. Thank you.

That was really interesting. I enjoyed hearing the artists' perspectives, how their process works, and what they were trying to accomplish with the work.