Impressionist, figurative, interior, cafe
Every so often a brief moment in time can be captured by a photograph. Cafes are great spots to watch people interact and to enjoy observing the way interior light can highlight simple shapes and flattened forms. The trick to creating a successful painting from a photograph is to avoid using the camera as a crutch. Unlike our eye which can really only focus on one area of importance in a situation, the camera sees all in tight focus. Finding the “story” that the photograph may convey and then refining that story by eliminating extraneous details is the challenge for the artist whose creative muse is not found in photographic realism but in Impressionism.
I am an editor of reality when I paint. Everything in my original photograph took second and third place to the light which held the two diners in relief. Placing dark against light, and light against dark values can create a rhythmic pattern to follow to a “final destination” in a painting. That’s one of many techniques that an artist may use to direct the viewers journey in and around a work of art.
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