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Curmudge ([personal profile] johncomic) wrote2021-02-23 01:10 pm
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the power of suggestion

This is the sort of thing that excites me.

I look at this [excerpted from a Hazel Soan watercolour] and find it rather indecipherable:

out of context bit

But when it's put in context, it becomes very easy to make out what it is:

watercolour elephants by Hazel Soan

I love that power of art to suggest and evoke. It almost makes my usual attempts to delineate everything, sharply and definitely, feel like a brute force approach to art. My sutff doesn't have the same delicate magic of this sort of impressionism. But maybe this is something I can learn to incorporate and make good use of. We shall see.

leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)

[personal profile] leecetheartist 2021-02-24 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Geez I hope they painted very quickly to get out of the way of the stampede.
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[personal profile] ginsu 2021-04-15 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
But maybe this is something I can learn to incorporate and make good use of. We shall see.

I for one really don't have any doubt.