Canvases, master copies and compositions of my own
Oil painting
I learn by imitating the great painters. Copying Monet or Vermeer means spending hours looking at their colours and the way they reinterpreted a landscape or used their brushes. You end up understanding why a stroke sits there and not somewhere else. It’s the same exercise as picking up a product already in service: you inherit other people’s decisions and you have to understand them before making new ones.
Further down, a painting is hidden. You can uncover it with a brush.
after Claude Monet
my own composition
after Jean-Baptiste Olive
IV · Provence Landscape
after an unknown painter
my own composition
my own composition
after Johannes Vermeer
A canvas to clear
The painting is underneath Playable
Six canvases and a clock. The game takes the whole screen.
Copy after
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Copying to learn
Before I painted anything of my own, I learned by redoing other people's brushwork.
Nothing is final
Copying taught me that you can always go back. Oil dries slowly so I paint over things days later, cover a whole area, change my mind about a colour. I start more easily when I know nothing is final.
After a day in front of a screen, working with your hands changes something I can’t quite put into words, and it makes me want to keep going.