I don’t know but then again I’m in good company. Titian was still working on The Death of Actaeon when he died. He’d only been at it for 15 years! So perhaps a day or two to mull over things is perhaps not such a bad thing.
Simon Marchini
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It sounds so easy – skin what is the problem? But skin isn’t an easy subject to capture – even the best computer generated animations can’t get it right. The more you look at skin you realise the less you really know. In the world of the comic book skin is just one tone, usually white or orange/red maybe pink but real skin just isn’t like that. Real skin has very small changes in tone that if you don’t get right can throw the whole painting. Of course that is if you’ve trying to make a reasonable approximation to skin. If not then you don’t have this worry.
Over the centuries some of the best painters have also been the best painters at capturing skin – hence the difficulty in getting it just right. I’m not sure I’ve got this just right at the moment but we have to have goals to work towards.
Simon Marchini
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The painting is slowly coming together. Still not sure whether I’ve got any answers yet about the reality question – time will tell. Still a good days work.
Simon Marchini
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Just how far do you make a digital painting real? Setting aside the question of what exactly real is just how do you approach such matters? Do you hint or go for full photo realism? What about plagiarism ? My digital works are all inspired by images I’ve found and want to paint but making them too close to the original means you are just copying. But is that real?
I have no answers to the main question but this painting helping me to start to get a feel for the way I want to start to answer the question.
Simon Marchini
Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
Having a little bit of a problem uploading this to Facebook … lets see how this works.
Brugges – http://pnr.ma/afqSpH
Simon Marchini
http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk
Well I’m back and I’m totally clapped out. On the face of it I did nothing over the past 3 days as my good friend David drove everywhere, including a drive back from Hastings to home in one go, around 174 miles in length. Given all this I’m still totally knackered – perhaps it is because I’m still getting over the bug that I had contracted over the past few weeks or perhaps it is because I’m just an old lardy cake who should get out more. Perhaps a bit of both, perhaps neither.
Well I trying to get something done today and this is the first fruit of my labours. I’ve called them book ends because they really do mark either end of the trip I’ve just been on – a route between Margate to Hastings that any Sat Nav horror story would be proud of – via Calais, Brugge, Ostend and Dover.
It was a great trio and my thanks really do go out to David for all his hard work and of course the people of France who insistance on closing the Louvre at Lens on a public holiday meant that we visited Bruges and Ostend instead – a much better trip! Now if I could only summon up the energy to do something else it would be a bonus!
Simon Marchini
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Early to bed and early to rise…I had time just to do a bit of drawing whilst listening to the New Quiz podcast…a nice way to start the day.
Simon Marchini
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To finally got back to England after a great day out to Bruges and Ostend. This sounds like we’ve travelled hundred of miles but it is barely 100 in total from Calais and back. I hope to write more on this in the future but I’m too tired at the moment. Two days done one more to go on the cultural trip.
Simon Marchini
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Bruges has worn me out. There reaches a point where enough is enough and I need a rest.
Simon Marchini
http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk
| Well the plan was to have a three day, three gallery away day. The first day was going to be the Turner contemporary at Margate, the second day the Lourve at Lens and the day the Jarwood at Hastings. However, my partner in crime discovered that the first of May is a national holiday in France and so the Louvre was closed…only in France! So a quick rethink was required and so the second day was changed to Bruges and all things Flemish. Now I’ve never actually been to Belgium so this is going to be a first.
So far the trip has been really great. The weather couldn’t have been better, clear skies and the breeze, whilst bracing was not too cold. As I write this I’m in the Premier Inn at Dover feeling a bit tired but excited about what tomorrow will bring. Lets hope I’m not disappointed. Simon Marchini |
