Category: paintings

Painting is more important than art

Jan 31, 2015

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fellpainter

in paintings, plein air, thoughts about painting, winter

This week the snow and ice returned, leading to winter activities such as huddling indoors, clinging to radiators and wearing hats. A further incentive to stay in was provided by the arrival of a new book: “What Painting Is” by James Elkins, bought with birthday money and full of strange (but true) ideas about painters…
I waxes, and I wanes, sir; I ebbs’s and I flows

Jan 21, 2015

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fellpainter

in paintings, studio, thoughts about painting

This post’s title was stolen from Mervyn Peake’s poem in his book “Rhymes Without Reason”. The poem is about feeling ill but the lines could describe the back and forth of the painting process just as well.