Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (October 19, 2018 - March 12, 2019) http://tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook41.blogspot.com/

Photo by JR Dalisay / April 21, 2017

Friday, December 2, 2022

If you are a realist painter:

--Do not compose your works as though you were composing photographs.

--Do not use photographic techniques on your paintings (cropping, defocusing, disproportioning limbs due to lens distortion, details running out of frame, and the like)

--Paint the background first, especially if it is architectural. Then paint the figure or figures next, for the figures will adjust to the background, but not the other way around.

--When painting portraits, do not make the background a hodgepodge of excess paint. Either paint a concrete background with appropriate details or use a completely new color mixture altogether. The background of a portrait should never be an afterthought. And remember that the background should respond to lighting, as the human figure does.

  

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