http://attentiveequations.com/2010/02/08/envisioning-the-image/ ...thoughts on the practice of oil painting from artist Judith Reeve Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:58:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://attentiveequations.com/2010/02/08/envisioning-the-image/#comment-53 Whit Prentice Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:40:40 +0000 http://attentiveequations.com/?p=765#comment-53 Judith, your studies are beautiful. The reclining figure is exquisite! I love it! There is so much wisdom in your blog. Your statement that if the one does not have as complete a vision as possible of what the finished piece will look like "one is apt to paint on it continuously because as moods change, for the model as well as the artist, the sense of the painting changes" could have been written for me. I often have no idea what I want to paint and ask the model to assume various poses until I settle on one- as I write this I am thinking I could decide what is interesting about the pose and then envision and begin working on studies of what the final painting will look like. In any case " Envisioning the image" is one of several things that you write about that I have got to continuously remind myself of when painting. Thanks for describing your practice for "allowing the image to reveal its self " looking forward to trying this. Judith, your studies are beautiful. The reclining figure is exquisite! I love it! There is so much wisdom in your blog. Your statement that if the one does not have as complete a vision as possible of what the finished piece will look like “one is apt to paint on it continuously because as moods change, for the model as well as the artist, the sense of the painting changes” could have been written for me. I often have no idea what I want to paint and ask the model to assume various poses until I settle on one- as I write this I am thinking I could decide what is interesting about the pose and then envision and begin working on studies of what the final painting will look like. In any case ” Envisioning the image” is one of several things that you write about that I have got to continuously remind myself of when painting. Thanks for describing your practice for “allowing the image to reveal its self ” looking forward to trying this.

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