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Allan,
Why would you want to paint like either one of them instead of painting the best Rahbecks?
I think it is good to study and admire wonderful painters, but by placing them on such a pedestal we are always shortchanging our own growth.
One often thinks that bravura painting is haphazard, I was just reading a Sargent book today, he would walk up to the canvas and only put down one or two carefully considered strokes. If they went awry he would scrape them down and go at it again, His work was the product of total consciousness. Sometimes you get in a groove when the paint seems to flow, but for me it never seems to be haphazard.
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