James Gurney - Painting Mindset: "Chaos Engine" vs. "Correction Engine"

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[lunatica]

1. Thanks!

Although when you have no access to a lot of subjects working from photographs is a perfectly permissible activity. I’m always puzzled as to why photographs seem to be shunned. Sometimes it’s impossible to get out in nature or to have access to animals.

I do agree with him wholeheartedly about happy accidents and giving yourself permission to make mistakes and learning from them. Sometimes the mistakes are ways into adopting them into your general style.

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2. My first life drawing professor was a Prix de Rome winner.

His drawing skills were exceptional.

For his paintings he’d take 35 mm slides and project them onto the canvas.

[lunatica]

3. That looks like excellent photorealism

It’s in the eye of the beholder always.

[BluesRunTheGame]

4. He painted with acrylics with little dots like Seurat's pointillism.

But he wouldn’t let you call it pointillism. “Its just me”, he’d say.

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5. It must have taken a lot of time for each painting.

It’s truly admirable! And beautiful.