Art is a Virus

Nahum Farchi

I muse about painting and programming.

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Developing Your Visual Memory

Try looking at something for 10-20 seconds then turn around and draw as much as you can remember. Memorize stranger's faces as you're going about your day, then as soon as you can get a sketchpad and draw what you remember. At first you won't remember much but soon you'll start remembering stuff. A nose, a mouth, a chin.

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Questions I Have Regarding Painting

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  1. How do the features of the head fit together to create a unified whole?
  2. What interesting effects can be created by distorting the placement of the features?
  3. What's the quickest way to memorize the porportions of the human skeleton?
  4. How do the muscles 'sit' on the face? How do they 'sit' on the rest of the body?
  5. How do you see colors the way they are? does it matter if you distort them?
  6. To what extent can you distort colors?
  7. What are the key characteristics of colors?
  8. What are the key characteristics of pigments?
  9. What are the key characteristics of light?
  10. How do you mix colors correctly?
  11. How do you put each color you see in the right place?
  12. Can you get hues right but the values wrong? Or does one depend on the other? vice versa?
  13. What happens if you get the colors right but the hues wrong? If the opposite?
  14. How do different light sources affect the hues?
  15. How do different light sources affect the values?
  16. How does the structure of the face affect the transitions from one value into another?
  17. How does the skin tone affect the hues and values?
  18. What is contrast?
  19. How do different bone structures affect the figure's character?
  20. How do different skin tones affect the figure's character?
  21. How do different combinations of noses, eyes, mouths, and ears affect the figure's character?
  22. What is character?
  23. Is character more than just getting the contour, values and hues right?
  24. What is a good painting?
  25. Why bother painting a good painting?
  26. Is a popular painting necessarily a good one?
  27. What's the difference between the female skeleton and the male skeleton?
  28. How do you go about learning how to draw a certain subject matter from your imagination?
  29. What's the minimum amount of knowledge you have to know about a subject before you can draw it from memory?
  30. What makes one composition good and another bad?
  31. Is the concept of a good composition a made up human invention?
  32. Is Hazel Dooney a great artist or a commercial hack?
  33. If I remove one brush stroke from a painting is still the same painting? What if I remove two? Three? When does it become something else?
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