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03-20-2006, 11:28 PM
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I don't know, Allan! I tend to avoid painting at all in artificial light because I can't really see the colors well enough. I know exactly what you're saying/asking, and I've often pondered it myself, and it short-circuits my brain every time 
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03-21-2006, 01:28 AM
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I try to keep painting to daylight hours too. . . especially for skin tones!
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03-21-2006, 05:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Alexandra Tyng
I don't know, Allan! I tend to avoid painting at all in artificial light because I can't really see the colors well enough. I know exactly what you're saying/asking, and I've often pondered it myself, and it short-circuits my brain every time |
Alex,
Daylight is so much stronger than artificial light and playful and inspiring 
Allan
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03-21-2006, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Allan Rahbek
Alex,
Daylight is so much stronger than artificial light and playful and inspiring
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You have said it so well Allan.
That is why I prefer daylight and working as much as possible from life. Artificial light is just that, artificial and unmoving.
Though I know for many people in portraiture it is difficult to totally ditch the photograph, there is nothing like working totally from life in daylight. Since I work in south east light, there are constant surprises, gleams of light and color that sometimes take my breath away.The painting, unlike working from a photograph, is in constant flux, it is thank heavens, quite different than I imagined it would be.
I can only able make mud in artificial light, which is too bad because I was rather a night-owl and had to reform.
Allan, I hope your studio and home is fixed soon so you can get back to painting. As a victim of two fires in her life, I know just how disrupting that can be.
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03-22-2006, 04:54 AM
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Thanks Sharon,
my house is recovering fast now and we moved in just before the weekend, the only things remaining indoor are two rooms upstairs where I have
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03-22-2006, 09:02 AM
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Hi Allan
Your way to paint is very nice indeed!!
..just a curiosity...the window shadows are painted?
Ciao
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03-22-2006, 09:20 AM
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Allan,
What a stunning and original painting!
It is so intense and the compostion is fabulous.
I am going to stop blabbering so I can go back and look at it!
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03-22-2006, 09:34 AM
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Wow! Gorgeous. Looks like you have the lighting well under control to me 
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03-22-2006, 10:39 AM
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I love this painting, too, and I am so glad you are going to finish it! Sharon, if you want to see more of it, look in WIP. It is fabulous.
It's terrible how direct sunlight falling on a painting has the effect of destroying the mystery of the illusion. I am always shocked to see how mine look with the sun falling on them. I guess that's why artists prefer to paint in indirect light.
That's wonderful news about your house being almost finished!
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