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Old 03-03-2009, 07:42 PM   #1
Mary Cupp Mary Cupp is offline
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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.
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Old 03-03-2009, 07:47 PM   #2
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Child at the market

I'm not sure why the photo didn't come through. Here's trying again.
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Old 05-08-2009, 01:05 PM   #3
Judson Eneas Judson Eneas is offline
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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.
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:22 PM   #4
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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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