Do you see the picture before you paint?
Somebody said, you must see the picture before you paint, otherwise you don’t get a picture. In some reasons i understand it, but i am an more spontaneous and intuitiv painter. Something develops, while i am painting. In watercolour you can not control the colour exactly and this is the charm of this medium for me. Ok, i make a sketch, and i know approximately, what i want to paint, but I don’t see exactly the picture before in my mind. How do you work?
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Having printed black and white photos for many years following the Ansel Adams Zone System, my mind can break down an image into separate values when I examine it for a potential painting, even with colors. I find that making little thumbnail sketches bores me. I usually dab pigment mixes on the margin of a printed photo and write little notes to go with them. I prefer to work with the "big picture" that the photographers in the 70's and 80's call ed previsualization, if all goes well.