You do know I was kidding, right? -- Brian On Dec 12, 2008, at 9:06 PM, John D wrote: > Here's the biggest moon I've seen in a while . . . from yesterday > evening. http://tinyurl.com/66dyd8 I'd just be too dizzy from sleep > deprivation to paint the star trails. Or maybe I would BECAUSE I was > dizzy, I dunno. Usually with things that change, like shadows or the > tumble of hair on a face, drapery on a model, position of stars in > the sky, cow in a field, etc. an artist will paint all over the > canvas, organizing the composition, then when everything happens to > be just so, THAT'S when you focus on this area or that. Then you > stop after the expression is gone or the cow has moved. It's called > "Don't chase the nose." for figurative artists and "Don't chase the > shadows" for landscape painters. When painting a face a noob might > paint the sihouette just right but then start in on the features not > noticing the sitter has moved. So the silhouette faces one way and > the face is shifted three degrees toward the relaxed side. It's > inevitable that the person posing will move. You have to watch for > it, call them back into the pose or shift around so your view of the > face matches the view of the silhouette. In the case of stars (with > which I have small experience) I'm imagining painting a grouping > over here at one in the morning and then a four in the morning > painting that same grouping again in another location, not even > realizing the mistake. Or as in the above mentioned example painting > them here. Then scrubbing them out and painting them there, then > scrubbing them out and painting them way over there. That's > "chasing" them and you have to just decide where they're going to be > in your painting and leave it at that. > >> brian wrote: Would you paint the star trails over that twenty >> hours? ;-)
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