Moria start to finish

[Marvin Mattelson]

Thanks for the kind words Sharon.

For me the process of painting from life is a continuum of approximated statements followed by smaller and smaller route corrections. Errors errors, everywhere, to be negotiated. Everything is always changing, so in order to succeed the larger truths must be discovered, first and foremost. Huge rewards await those who can successful negotiate the twists and turns. I agree that far too many portrait painters are way too willing to settle for the nitpicked accuracies. That's all that photos can offer. The challenge of working from photos is to not settle, but strive to bring the type of awareness one is privy to when painting from life. Experience from life painting is the only way.