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1. svazquez13 wrote: this is very interesting! |
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2. indigo wrote: Not letting go of Think Draw I hope! |
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3. chelydra wrote: Hi - no, I was letting go of my years-long struggle to make a decent copy of The Storm on the Sea of Galilee a lost painting by Rembrandt (good color photos survive) |
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4. chelydra wrote: But still determined to get to the bottom, in some abstract way, of what keeps me coming back to it despite many failures... |
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5. chelydra wrote: So I took my saved copy (and also a copy of a digital re-creation) and reduced its resolution to about 40 pixels an inch, maybe less—view actual size makes it about 2/3rds of an inch across—and tried copying that. |
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6. chelydra wrote: There's no way to get the details of waves, sky, sales, rigging, sailors (fishermen) intelligible even in a copy of a high or medium resolution image... TD's challenging limitations in this case... |
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7. chelydra wrote: ... haven't (yet) brought out any hidden creative powers, but who knows... if I live another 10 years...? |
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8. chelydra wrote: But maybe that ambition and other equally unreachable deluded hopes and dreams are what I'm ditching... maybe that's what the title is about... |
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9. chelydra wrote: ...which feel entirely positive, by the way, well, no, not entirely, but somewhat positive—because it does open up the possibility of accomplishing a bit of what can be done during the time freed up by letting go of what can't be done... |
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10. chelydra wrote: But also, the mast unexpectedly turned into an arm, the crow's-nest into a hand, and the fingers suggested a letting-go was happening. |
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11. chelydra wrote: But mainly I was thinking of the coloring-outside-the-lines kind of "letting go" - the hell with it, just do whatever happens if it refuses to turn out how it's supposed! |
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12. hjjr wrote: If I could I would let it go… |
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