Faking it.

[cemeteryconsort]

So I'm doing a fake. A copy of a painting. "Fakes" is going to be one of the catagories for the art show next year. The guy who taught   the scupture class I did and who I see once a week at the open studio has been pusing for this idea for a while now. It sounds like a lot of fun. There will be two catagories, copies of famous art, and copies but

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[miss_whiplash]

There is a spell checker on LJ which underlined misspellings with a wobbly red line. Not sure it is in ordinary view but it works in html view.

[cemeteryconsort]

I cant seem to find the spell check, nothing in the box at the top were the links are and such. Or none that I can see. There is an automatic spell check going on here in the comments box though. Go frigging figure. sigh.

[bloodcult]

Sargent is one of my favorites, I can only liken him to Jimi Hendrix of pigments.

With other artists I appreciate their work, but I can clearly see how they got there. I can look at, say, Fumee d'Ambre Gris, all day and the dexterity with white-on-white amazes me sort of like Hendrix's national anthem.

[cemeteryconsort]

I had to look that one up. It's not one I had recall seeing. Very nice. Sargent is just so frigging good, and he makes it look so damn easy too. Just trying to decode his brushstrokes to figure what colors I should do first and I just see these swooshes of color and am like , shit, thats not 'painted' its just brushed on in like one stroke.. I cant do that! UG.. and which one went on first? Oy VAY!

[luzclarita]

That sounds fun. I keep meaning to do some pieces "after" some of my favorite artists, but always get too precious with my materials and decide to do my own thing. It's supposed to be an excellent way to improve. And you are ambitious. That's huge!

[cemeteryconsort]

Yeah, I guess copying famous artist is a time honored tradition. So much so artists used to set up their easels inside art museums. Can you even imaging doing that today ? I don't' think they could allow that.. what with the threat of damaging a painting worth millions and the liability?