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Mary Cupp 03-03-2009 07:42 PM

Child at the market
 
This is a painting I did from a photo I took at the farmers market last summer. I just wanted some feedback.

Mary Cupp 03-03-2009 07:47 PM

Child at the market
 
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I'm not sure why the photo didn't come through. Here's trying again.

Judson Eneas 05-08-2009 01:05 PM

From looking at this painting I take it that you are going for the Impressionist style which is an honorable style of painting. If that's so then I suggest that you paint from life, or at least study the paintings of the great Impressionist painters like Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet just to name a few artists.

Mary Cupp 05-08-2009 02:22 PM

In the case of the market paintings, there is no way I can set up an easel on site and paint. Everything moves too fast and it is too bustling.

As for the impressionist masters, they were mostly landscape painters and thus could find a subject that was reasonably cooperative.
However, I was just yesterday looking at the painting of the matador lighting the ciggie, by Mary Cassatt and wondering how on earth she did it. Did she have a friend who would pose with a matador costume? Of course many of her models were commissions, and in those days people expected to sit long hours to be painted, unlike today. It really is a problem.


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