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[QUOTE=Mari DeRuntz Has anyone claimed it's easier to work from life? More fun? I had a session today where I would have been happy to have cut my wrists afterwards. But as with any other work, there are good days and there are terrible days.
It is also easier to buy a jar of mayonnaise at the grocer than it is to make a weekly batch of aioli. But the difference is extreme and well worth the good focused work it takes to learn the mechanics of the emulsion, even taking into account all the broken sauces, wasted eggs and wasted olive oil.QUOTE]
Working from life has ruined many days for me. I have sat in a blue funk for the rest of the day wondering if my days were better and more profitably spent as a bagger in a supermarket. However I like the randomness of the result of good and bad days on a piece.
Somehow, pieces from my imagination have led me down all the stale old paths, making a vanilla vision of all the faces I knew in the past. I like the challenge of a slightly askew nose, the actual asymmetry of faces, the subtle play of light that changes like quicksilver at the slightest change of an angle.
Yes, homemade aioli is a gift of the Gods.
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