tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20638302.post5591945092930098614..comments2023-11-02T07:41:52.227-07:00Comments on Painting From Life: Roos Schuring- Dutch Impressionist...Larry Seilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09553436656150515023noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20638302.post-12074212239522823652012-01-29T10:54:04.138-08:002012-01-29T10:54:04.138-08:00Thank you Larry for your honest comments about the...Thank you Larry for your honest comments about the painters life, your words ring so true at this particular time in my life. I commented to a painter friend the other day that my mantra lately has been "paint what you know, paint what you love". It is so important to be as true to yourself as the certainty of the earth you walk on and the air you breath. Appreciate your comments, painting and discipline.Darrell Baschakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00229927261300573091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20638302.post-26100924014568236792012-01-28T18:57:20.657-08:002012-01-28T18:57:20.657-08:00thanks Sharon, appreciate your input. I have done...thanks Sharon, appreciate your input. I have done these small studies before, even while filming/videography...for instruction. What I do like...is knowing their purpose, they become a simple bold statement..really take so little time, but are charming.<br /><br />In some cases...painting a waterfalls where shadow is coming left to right from a tree mass behind me, and between me and the sun...there simply won't be enough time to paint before the light changes radically. Interesting how a few strokes of color put down on a small panel gives one freedom to disregard the light when the inevitable in perhaps only moments comes...<br /><br />But...I understand what you're saying.. 8^)Larry Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09553436656150515023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20638302.post-14927565080326688592012-01-28T18:54:08.671-08:002012-01-28T18:54:08.671-08:00my pleasure, Kurt...my pleasure, Kurt...Larry Seilerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09553436656150515023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20638302.post-25540835562258767502012-01-28T11:16:47.663-08:002012-01-28T11:16:47.663-08:00Hi Larry: Wonderful work, thank you for sharing Ro...Hi Larry: Wonderful work, thank you for sharing Roos to us. I appreciate what you are saying in the text. I think of of us who are taking our work seriously and trying to improve go through what you have eloquently penned. It is always a risk when we choose to challenge ourselves and rise to a new level, but without the risk the journey is stale and meaningless -a mere producing of 'product'. I am with you -I need to keep growing, and risking failure, because more often than not, it takes me to a new level, which keeps me in the game. It wouldn't be much fun otherwise I think. By the way, I would encourage you to not do the small studies en plein air first. Go right to the subject at hand and put that passion into the finished painting, rather than diluting the effort with a preliminary work. I take a few minutes to memorize/grab hold of what really interests me in a scene and then dive right into it, painting the things that change the most first (also happens to be the thing I wanted to capture in the first place. It IS taking a risk, but WHEN and IF the painting works out, I think it captures that honesty that you are talking about. <br />Thanks for posting, and hope you don't mind my suggestion!<br />SharonSharon Lynn Williams Fine Arthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00726267948612291474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20638302.post-33575763816692499092012-01-28T08:50:41.557-08:002012-01-28T08:50:41.557-08:00Thanks for posting these increbile emotional paint...Thanks for posting these increbile emotional paintings.Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12637059930577742407noreply@blogger.com