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Trust your intuitive response. When I'm shooting a
reference photo, I'm going strictly on intuition, a faith
that what I sense in this spot can translate into a good
painting.
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Study the reference photo. Later, when I see a photo,
things become more apparent. I paint right on the photo:
It's like my thumbnail sketch. I'll spend maybe three days
painting on the photo. I'll work on it until that little
voice in my head says to stop.
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Focus on the element that will convey the presence of
the scene. The first issue is always: What's the essence of
this scene--what needs to be magnified?
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See the patterns. Once I know what to make the focus of
the work, then everything else comes into play. Often, I'll
start painting and patterns will simply emerge.
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Practice understatement. Subtleties are important. I'd
rather people spend time with the painting and discover
things rather than have something hit them immediately--in
that case they'd just walk on to the next painting!
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