The film shows him laying out his watercolor palette, posing his model, and applying his wet washes. Flint typically worked from live models in his studio.
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More about Sir William Russell Flint on Wikipedia
Flint bio on Jim Vadeboncoeur's website
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On Monday I'll be giving a talk on composition at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto. July 30, 2012 @ 6:30 pm.
Amazing clip - it almost looks like there's no pencil drawing - perhaps it's just very faint - or did he use the paint alone?
ReplyDeleteI wish I could afford a live model every time I had an idea for a picture...
ReplyDeleteThat was cool!
ReplyDeleteInteresting how he starts with the hair, using that big fat brush, working from top to bottom, so to say.
ReplyDeleteSomehow it shouldn't make a difference - but working a figure from the feet upwards would look rather uncommon.
I studied alongside his great-grandson, Alex Russell Flint. He's a protege of Ted Seth Jacobs and a very wonderful painter.
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I went to look at the paintings of his great grandson Alex Russel Flint and I was so enchanced to find a young man doing beautiful paintings which makes your hart happy :o)Jytte
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