“Funny, how looks can be deceiving
But she`s not easily
Painted from memory”… Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach
Memory and observation dance through my favorite works and many have experienced the same:
“It is very well to copy what one sees; it’s much better to draw what one has retained in one’s memory. It is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.” Edgar Degas
“There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.” Winston Churchill
“The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.” Robert Henri
Break-a-Brush!
David
“The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten” Robert Henri