Observations during the Holiday Season...

Taking advantage of my Chinese painting classes last year, I asked an attending professional artist the reasons why he preferred large canvases (at least 45 inch in height and width minimum). He responded by saying that he selected the largest canvases he could cover with the sweep on an arm and a sway of the body. The advantage being that, given his unique physical dimensions, nobody could copy his brush strokes! This is something I would like to try with my upcoming 100 m series...

Also, on a less serious note, since I want the kid in me to paint in 2009... I took advantage of the presence of the "little people" in action during the Holiday Season (in occurrence my grand children unwrapping Christmas gifts) to learn a thing or two about body movements, in an attempt to improve my own painting moves...

I noticed that pivoting longitudinally along one's own body axis could help one cover more ground and therefore more canvas real estate in one sweep if need be:

Moreover, it seemed also possible to work on the ground leaning over large pieces of artwork without falling on one's face given the proper technique:

Imbued with this new knowledge, I decided to start this nordic Charlevoix beach scene :))


Still need to figure out where I am going to put a large flying bird in this picture...