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February 14, 2005
Clear and present passion
I used to think I wasn’t an artist. On dark days, alone in the studio, facing the nightmares of my deranged imagination, I still do. But I am becoming increasingly aware that this thing that has been driving me to paint all these years is the amazing thrill of actually putting paint on panel.
Regular readers of this journal will know about my love of oil paint, especially when it gets to be just the right consistency and mixes sublimely across the palette. I love the big brushes which push the paint about. But most of all I love looking at someone standing or sitting or stretched out in front of me and applying consecutive and adjoining layers of colour to capture the play of light across their body.
Posted by john at February 14, 2005 09:07 AM
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