I finally completed this small (12 x 20″) ocean piece this morning.  From an earlier post, you may know that it is an imaginary painting; that is, I made it up. It’s constructed from what I’ve visually accumulated from experience, what I wanted to see happen in the painting, and what I find to be moving emotionally.

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“It is very good to copy what you see.  It is much better to draw what you can’t see any more, but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which your memory and imagination work together.  You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary”

-Edgar Degas

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2 Comments

  1. That’s a challenging exercise (well met). Sorry I missed you last night. I got stuck listening to all the ho’omalimali.

    (BTW, the formatting on your page cuts off the Degas quote. Setting that table at 90% would fix it, but I have no idea what WordPress’s CMS lets you do.)

  2. Hey Barbara.

    Thanks for the response…and I was only at the reception for twenty minutes because I had a Life class waiting up the street. Your painting was nice, by the way, I believe it was Bamboo Ridge.


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