Saturday, March 8, 2014

I can only work from a model…



"I can only work from a model. The sight of human forms feeds and comforts me."
Auguste Rodin.
 
I share Rodin’s basic need.  Without a model my mind and paper is blank.  With the model at hand, colours fall on the page with a life of their own.  
 
Wherever the model leads, I follow.  Today’s painting came about from my model's request for something to read while I paint.  The book incidentally, is Van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo. 

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