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Learning About Lighting
I've enjoyed playing with cameras for many years now, but I have always been the type of photographer that just hopes that they run across something cool when they happen to have a camera on hand. For a while now I have turned my nose at artificial lighting, but I've realized that I was really making a judgement based on the fact that on camera flashes generally ruin pictures. If you take that same flash and move it away from your lens, it can free you from being a slave to the light that mother nature is providing at the moment. So, I have got myself a speedlight, and I'm busy reading up on the very basics of how to paint with light. Hol
Got to Say it Was a Good Day
I spent pretty much all of today at the sculpture studio. I started with a clay study for the next stone piece that I am going to carve. The last time I made a clay study for stone work it got ruined by all the rock chips that fly around when I use a chisel. So, this time around I decided to cast the clay into bronze so it can withstand the abuse. This is my first foray into the art of mold making, so I am having an especially fun time with it.
When sunset comes and you are covered head to toe in clay, wax, and plaster, you know that it was a Sunday well spent.
On Boldness
Recently I have been spending a lot of time learning to carve stone. I always try to find creative outlets, but it has been a couple years since I have been this obsessed about art. It is definitely refreshing to be back in that mode.
One thing that I have noticed is that a lot of my favorite two dimensional artists were/are great sculptors (and quite a few of them even carved stone). Michelangelo, Leonardo, Degas, Picasso, Matisse, Kathe Kollwitz, Ernst Barlach, Giacometti, . . . the list goes on forever. Given that a relatively small percentage of artists learn to sculpt, how is it that such a large number of the greats learned it?
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Uhhhhhh....
I dont get it.
Is this supposed to be a joke?
I really need to know how to flip the canvas.. ;-;
I dont get it.
Is this supposed to be a joke?
I really need to know how to flip the canvas.. ;-;