Think Draw - Picture

Title: the kiss
created on 29 Jun 12

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1. marg wrote: Yes. It's like I'm seeing what you've said - and I don't know how you manage to say things like this !
2. Normal wrote: Beautiful! Couldn't see it at first because I was looking for the painted one - duh!
3. bluemoon wrote: excellent
4. nancylee wrote: Having the imagination to picture this in color is a level of artistry before you put one bead on the canvas.
5. chelydra wrote: A good photo of a plain white marble statue is swarming with colors... you just need to not 'tune them out' when your brain tries to tell your eyes 'white'. Brains are much overrated organs, usually doing more harm than good.
6. chelydra wrote: Just heavy theatrical make-up is needed to make actors' faces look right to the folks in the cheap seats far away, exaggerated colors lhelp make things look right in tiny pictures, as long as they're derived from observation (NOT imagination, which can en
7. chelydra wrote: ...entertain but not inform). Meant to say above, Just AS heavy theatrical make-up...
8. chelydra wrote: I can feel another encyclopaedic monologue coming on, thanks to nancylee's innocent and well-meaning comment above...
9. chelydra wrote: ...but I'll try to limit it to just adding that this business of observing colors your brain disregards is even more important in painting from life...
10. chelydra wrote: European faces include millions of colors but never white. African faces contain millions of colors but never black. The red and orangy-yellow pigments that become apparent in autumn foliage (when green chlorophyll dies first)...
11. chelydra wrote: ...are present in summer trees too, and green straight out of the tube can never give a true representation of the rich living harmonies of a forest, or even a houseplant.
12. chelydra wrote: The world would be a better place place if people observed more and imagined less. Just as 'talent' is a poor substitute for careful hard work, 'imagination' is unreliable, over-rated. Like salt in soup, it can bring out flavors when the real ingredients
13. chelydra wrote: ...are present and good. Or it can be used to mask their absence or badness.
14. chelydra wrote: If you use your imagination to put all sorts of unexpected colors in faces or foliage, you'll just get a random meaningless "effect" (another bad word) -- the artistic equivalent of a Lipton's bullion cube. Open your eyes, let your brain serve your eyes
15. chelydra wrote: ...and if your brain tries to take over and tell your eyes what to see, send it away for a while. Don't let it back until it knows its place.
16. chelydra wrote: Just found an excellent example of well-observed color, in Nancylee's very own watermelon. (There are about 10 things I wish I'd done different in the kiss, btw.)
17. chelydra wrote: Clarifications: #14 means imagination independent of (instead of) observation (or experience) yields rubbish.
18. chelydra wrote: #9-10 forgot to mention that your eyes can see ten times the amount/variety of color that a camera can record. So it's 10X more important to ignore your brain when it tells you what to see.
19. golehto wrote: ur work is amazing :)
20. lesley_gene wrote: Amazing what our brains can actually perceive if we pay attention. This is a beauty!
21. nancylee wrote: Glad you sent me back here. I completely agree about observation. Kids were sometimes impressed by my drawings (VERY simple) on the blackboard, but I told them that this was because I was good at observation, NOT because I was creative. (I am, but not in
22. nancylee wrote: Of course the scientist in me also wants to point out that white is exactly what you say - a myriad of colors.
23. AFSOUTH wrote: This is such impressive sculpting in beads! Great shape and depth!
24. clorophilla wrote: Love your chelydrapedia :-) I learned a lot from kids, whos brain still know where is its place. They look at things so openly, without filters, sometimes the only thing you have to do is to follw their glances.
25. clorophilla wrote: I always remember a nigh I was driving between a dark countryside with my 1 yr old son. It was raining and the only thing I could see was the narrow share of the road enighted by the headlamps. Yet my son was gazing at the dark window at his right. He sig
26. clorophilla wrote: He sighted and smiled with sparkling eyes. â€œWhat on the Earth could he see? There is NOTHING there!â€ I wondered. Then, I was blessed for a while and could see with child eyes, and, well, I SEE: The glass itself was lighty shining, reflectin
27. clorophilla wrote: inner low light and the people theirselves inside the car. And there was more: the rain was leaving a number of little glittering pearls on the outer side of the glass, each of them sparkling while where gliding on the glass surface.
28. clorophilla wrote: Every time a car passed in the opposite direction, those pearls flashed with a cold fire. This was the wondrous â€œnothingâ€ my brain was forcing me not to see.
29. chelydra wrote: One of the most interesting things I ever read about brains is that growing, and acquiring adult intellectual power, results from SHUTTING DOWN neuron pathways. Kids' brains are sparkling and buzzing with zillions of circuits firing...
30. chelydra wrote: So much so that kids can't think straight! Everything is so connected to everything else it's like a big party, with wild dancing, three different orchestras playing whatever music each musicians feels like playing...
31. chelydra wrote: ...and about 150 conversations going on at once, plus spin-the-bottle, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, hide-and-seek games, all blending together without any rigid rules...
32. chelydra wrote: Hallucinogenic drugs and schizophrenia put brains back into that childlike state. Artists and writers have to keep BOTH kinds of mind in their brains at once - the critical adult mind AND the creative kid mind. Either one alone produces bad art or bad wri
33. chelydra wrote: ...writing. And having both but in conflict is worst of all, if it gets ugly - the bipolar cycles have to be gentle, quick, and harmonious, so the critical reasoning is in a loving marriage with the spontaneous joyful openness. This partnership is the key
34. chelydra wrote: ...And I could (and no doubt will) write a Chelydropaedic Overview on when, how and why it's crucial to ALLOW the brain to take control of seeing. It's when you understand (by logic) WHY YOU SEE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING that you move beyond (or within) surface
35. chelydra wrote: ...appearances, and get to heart of the process of observation. Examples are endless, anatomy and perspective being two obvious ones, but there are more fundamental principles that are both simpler and deeper...
36. chelydra wrote: ...and also explain the inner workings of both anatomy and perspective (as well as light), the why with the what... I discovered the most basic principle of all while trying to explain stuff to very young art students. They weren't impressed, but I sure w
37. chelydra wrote: ...was! In trying to say why a sketch of three eggs was all wrong, I suddenly began to understand some of what Newton and Einstein were theorizing about. From the dull, tedious struggle of drawing eggs, where logic has to supplement (or even substitute fo
38. chelydra wrote: for) observation, I suddenly began to understand the Inverse Square Law, which determined EVERYTHING we were seeing in the eggscape. It's all about finding the points at the center of radiating/converging spheres....
39. chelydra wrote: ...and this applies to form (organic forms, that is), light, and space... as well as gravity...
40. chelydra wrote: I was like your 1-year-old son, suddenly seeing the key to the universe in an apparent "nothing", although in my case the experience came from shutting down sensations and closing out the feelings they engender, trying to strip everything down to abstract
41. chelydra wrote: ...logic, in an effort to explain right and wrong ways of drawing eggs.
42. chelydra wrote: CORRECTIONS: In #29, growing should be growing UP. In #36, it should say the why WITHIN the what, not with the what.
43. DilCoura wrote: Gostei!
44. clorophilla wrote: interesting adds, although I understood quite nothing about inverse square and eggscapes... Did you never consider to do a youchelydrotube lecture? (I you'll do, please don't forget subtitles!)
45. Kilo wrote: ddduuuuddeeee...thats like amazin!from skull
46. suzze wrote: :)
47. hxxhxx wrote: added this to my favorites, to save your lecture on artistic vision (above). thanks!
48. puzzler wrote: Amazing!
49. scladybug wrote: Wow, Wow, Wow... :)
50. mum23 wrote: Wows! First for the 'living' statue in glorious colour, and then for the fascinating discussion that follows.
51. mum23 wrote: I miss being a part of this place, but time just doesn't permit. Good to see you here, though.
52. linmar wrote: beautiful! :)
53. gimzer wrote: Your art reflects the child-like perceptions. Beautiful.
54. KJLavigne wrote: The effect is two pics in one! Stunning!
55. oj10 wrote: wooooohoooooooo omg
56. marg wrote: LOL, chelydra.. a) because this is an orgy, not a kiss and b) because the next pic I do will be from Camp Wapalanne, with beavers slapping their tails on the lake and turtles snapping poles in half...
57. marg wrote: .. or maybe from the Gymkhana, with that 20 hands/18 year old horse with the wooden saddle.. or the hockey match when I had to play goalie..
58. marg wrote: .. or maybe the Weihnachtsbaum at home.. or the little bar across from the Place d'AthÃ¨nes, which we used to duck into for a quick brandy before an 8 a.m. lecture..
59. Fangzzz wrote: love your comment about seeing color in white. My mother - an art teacher - use to make us draw cloud and she would talk about the yellows, pinks, blues and "yuck greens". You obviously listened better than I did ;)