Comments on: Shared horizons http://www.signapse.co.uk/2009/04/23/shared-horizons/ Everything starts with drawing Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:17:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: doug http://www.signapse.co.uk/2009/04/23/shared-horizons/#comment-1817 doug Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:15:27 +0000 http://www.signapse.co.uk/2009/04/23/shared-horizons/#comment-1817 Hey Bill thanks for the comment, isn't it really good to be finally making work for this project ? I'm funny about being competitive, I find it disables me such a lot. I hooked up with you for the same reason I always tried to be in bands with better musicians than I was - it always made me sound better and I had more fun. I really admire your printmaking and the way the drawing spoke through the paint in that big piece I saw in Anchorage museum (a small stream coming down through rocks in a valley with lots of different vegetation). Can't remember the name. I'm hoping to learn form you about using oils in the open air because I feel very stuck in the Constable type dilemma. His direct oil sketches are groundbreaking but the 6 footers he did in the studio are not as strong for me. I love working in my sketchbooks in the same way I respond so strongly to Constables oil sketches. Something goes flat when I start working on them in the studio. Is there some way we can show the work on paper, or some other way to get that jazz juice into the studio work .. ? This is what I'm really interested in debating with you. Shall I send the sketches over, is that how you saw the call and response element ? Allbest, Doug Hey Bill

thanks for the comment, isn’t it really good to be finally making work for this project ?

I’m funny about being competitive, I find it disables me such a lot. I hooked up with you for the same reason I always tried to be in bands with better musicians than I was - it always made me sound better and I had more fun. I really admire your printmaking and the way the drawing spoke through the paint in that big piece I saw in Anchorage museum (a small stream coming down through rocks in a valley with lots of different vegetation). Can’t remember the name.

I’m hoping to learn form you about using oils in the open air because I feel very stuck in the Constable type dilemma. His direct oil sketches are groundbreaking but the 6 footers he did in the studio are not as strong for me. I love working in my sketchbooks in the same way I respond so strongly to Constables oil sketches. Something goes flat when I start working on them in the studio. Is there some way we can show the work on paper, or some other way to get that jazz juice into the studio work .. ?

This is what I’m really interested in debating with you.

Shall I send the sketches over, is that how you saw the call and response element ?

Allbest, Doug

]]> By: Bill Brody http://www.signapse.co.uk/2009/04/23/shared-horizons/#comment-1816 Bill Brody Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:42:41 +0000 http://www.signapse.co.uk/2009/04/23/shared-horizons/#comment-1816 Hey, Doug Your three sketches in particular are stunning! Now my competitive juices are starting to flow. This is going to be quite a fun ride! Bill Hey, Doug

Your three sketches in particular are stunning! Now my competitive juices are starting to flow. This is going to be quite a fun ride!

Bill

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