Friday, April 11, 2014

In the heat of the moment



To my mind, water colours are best when thrown down in the heat of the moment.  A painting that takes longer than thirty-minutes is invariably a failure.  Let me clarify that statement by saying that it has taken me seventy years to say what I have to say in less than thirty minutes. 


On occasions, I still make the mistake of laboring too long.  But then, as I throw aside my failed painting, my model heaves a sigh of relief and stretches like she’s never stretched before.  It is then that I grab the nearest sheet of paper at yell: “Hold it there...please...just for a couple of minutes!”   


In today’s painting you have forever that rare couple of minutes.

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