Why do you have.. Why do you have to spend time, paints, brushes and so on, if you already have a nice picture (photo) in front of you?

canondigiphoto Loc: Cleveland, TN

Why do you have to spend time, paints, brushes and so on, if you already have a nice picture (photo) in front of you?
https://www.facebook.com/artistsnartlovers/videos/1029188060616090/
Thank you for your response.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Actually, it's just the opposite for me. I took up photography BECAUSE I can't paint, draw, sing etc. I think I've turned into a fair photographer and I'm a pretty fair woodworker too...But I sure wish I could paint.

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

Painting/drawing a photograph is really just a training tool to reach the point of showing what you imagine.
There is also the pride and satisfaction of manual creation.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I answered this years ago.
--Bob

canondigiphoto wrote:

Why do you have to spend time, paints, brushes and so on, if you already have a nice picture (photo) in front of you?
https://www.facebook.com/artistsnartlovers/videos/1029188060616090/
Thank you for your response.

Why I Do Photography
Why I Do Photography...

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rmalarz wrote:

I answered this years ago.
--Bob

Yea, me also!
I have a couple of friends who are very good artists,
I almost tell them "Photography is for those who cannot paint."

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Retired CPO wrote:

Actually, it's just the opposite for me. I took up photography BECAUSE I can't paint, draw, sing etc. I think I've turned into a fair photographer and I'm a pretty fair woodworker too...But I sure wish I could paint.

foggypreacher Loc: Dickinson, Texas

Amen to that. I cannot draw a straight line with a ruler; on a computer, yes if the computer does the work. I getting there with my camera, but only be learning for about a year. Long way to go. Thanks to all you Hogs who have helped.

Dr.Nikon Loc: Honolulu Hawaii

That guy is an amazing artist ....

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Wallen wrote:

Painting/drawing a photograph is really just a training tool to reach the point of showing what you imagine.
There is also the pride and satisfaction of manual creation.

I could die a happy man if I could conceive of and execute that first drawing. Really extraordinary talent!

canondigiphoto Loc: Cleveland, TN

rmalarz wrote:

I answered this years ago.
--Bob

I like yours more than this one.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

The best answer I have seen, is in a book by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Patton Walsh called: Thrones, Dominions. There is a character who is a photographer (Portrait) who later marries Bunter. In a discussion about the difference between a painting and a photograph she notes that a photograph captures someone at a particular instant and her craft was to capture the person at the moment they like or recognize (which is not always successful as some people do not like any image of them). A painter has the permission to look at the person for a lengthy time and thus also captures that time in the painting (if they have that skill).

papaluv4gd Loc: durham,ct

I agree with retiredcpo. Danm that is some fine artwork. Took a semester of art in college,But man,not even close. Wallen, #1 is beautiful.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

Regarding the post from RMLARZ: There is a book called "Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain" that can improve your drawing. It teaches techniques that make you see something as it is, rather than how your brain interprets it. One of the tricks in it is to look at something upside down. This forces you to see light, shadow, shapes etc without reference to how you think it should be.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I view the scene I'm photographing upside down every time I use my view camera. If nothing else, it does call attention to composition.
--Bob

hassighedgehog wrote:

Regarding the post from RMLARZ: There is a book called "Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain" that can improve your drawing. It teaches techniques that make you see something as it is, rather than how your brain interprets it. One of the tricks in it is to look at something upside down. This forces you to see light, shadow, shapes etc without reference to how you think it should be.

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

Retired CPO wrote:

I could die a happy man if I could conceive of and execute that first drawing. Really extraordinary talent!

Many thanks for being appreciated. It was a long journey to get there. Basically its just correct practice with a purpose. "Drawing is easy, it just takes time".

-Wallen