Sarah Harvey 2
I couldn't resist showing you another of Sarah's brilliant paintings, of Lewis underwater. This one is sold. How she painted it without getting her brush soggy....
posted by Unknown @ 18.7.07
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Maybe she painted it from a photograph? Is that cheating?
Unless she has a photographic memory, this painting has got to be from a photo.
Purists think cameras should not be used by artists. That is so out of date. I once met a graphic artist who removed all the blemishes from Celina Scott's face for the cover of Radio Times. That was his job: tarting up the stars.
One of my favourite Brit. artists, Atkinson Grimshaw, was fascinated by early cameras. He painted cold, wet dockyards lit by moonlight and shop windows, definitely a subject you want to paint in a warm studio, working from a photograph.
It's the end result that counts, not how you achieve it. Was Leonardo da Vinci cheating when he used a cartoon to paint al fresco? Course not. Trick of the trade to make work easier.
Don't ask: Who's Al Fresco?
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