How do you get from photo to canvas?

[Jean Kelly]

Sharon,

When I was 13 years old, I was planning on becoming a fashion designer and illustrator. I found a book on fashion illustrating that suggested what you talk about here. So I drew and drew, all my figures and designs were eight heads tall. When I got to college, my life drawing professor said, "Draw what you see, Jean! Is that model really that long???" Go figure.

Jean

[Sharon Knettell]

Originally Posted by Jean Kelly

Sharon,

When I was 13 years old, I was planning on becoming a fashion designer and illustrator. I found a book on fashion illustrating that suggested what you talk about here. So I drew and drew, all my figures and designs were eight heads tall. When I got to college, my life drawing professor said, "Draw what you see, Jean! Is that model really that long???" Go figure.

Jean

Unfortunately as so many figurative artists have found, the instruction and knowledge of classic technique, in most art schools in the last two-thirds of the century was woefully inadequate. Most contemporary insructors are and were totally ignorant of them.

[Jean Kelly]

Yes Sharon, painting in particular. I learned the tecniques of building, stretching and sizing a canvas, then bought the required list of pigments and linseed oil, and just started painting. Nothing beyond that. Everything I've learned about paint has been here. I did learn how to draw what I saw though.

Jean

[Joan Breckwoldt]

Sharon,

Thank you for answering my question. I will try that. What an interesting concept, I'm glad to have that information, I don't know how I ever would have come across that without this forum.

Joan