When ever you gonna paint inside a park or museum or what ever, DO check the closing time!!!
I was nearly 15 minutes started and a nice man came chatting about other painters and how he admired those people, and so forward. at one moment I said "I give you my business card so I can paint further, the light is changing soo rapidly." Okay he answer, but warned me that the whole place would shut at 17.00 hr. :-O that was just 30 minutes away!! So I place my mobile right next to my painting and painted like a mad man, ... invaine, I never made it to the end, ....
"Orangerie Rozendaal." Rozendaal, Holland.
(Orangery Rozendaal.) Oil on board.
18 x 24 cm. 45 min.
5 comments:
Sometimes, painting under time pressure like that can create great results, as you must be more intuitive, and intuition is often more accurate than over-thinking things.
I agree with Ed, i think in a limited time we're forced to commit to the best stroke.
rather than make some wishy washy strokes
True but not when you don't KNOW that you have a limited time. For Sunsets or other scenes you know that there is a short time, you can go for it and make decisions according to that. But when you don't realize that your time is running up, ...
that is why a hardly talk to by-standers...just squint at them!
i´d love to talk with people when i´m painting. It´s like open the intimate experience of painting as a social fact, or something like that.
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