tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post8914341733347682278..comments2024-03-28T09:25:25.716-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Morot's device for capturing motionJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-83371957662582082082014-04-15T01:32:07.405-04:002014-04-15T01:32:07.405-04:00Wow Howard, I just looked up the painting Friedlan...Wow Howard, I just looked up the painting Friedland. I would love to see this in person. People say I'm so patient because I'll spend several hundred hours on a painting, but 14 years?!!!!! Boggles my mind. You wouldn't be the same painter after five years let alone 14. Definitely a win for tenacity.Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09746248091425588674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-9000830834039035002014-04-14T17:25:01.278-04:002014-04-14T17:25:01.278-04:00Fascinating article. I just finished reading &quo...Fascinating article. I just finished reading "The Judgement of Paris" by Ross King. It talks in depth about Ernest Meissonier's efforts to capture horses in motion. He was an excellent rider and would take cavalry men to the race track and gallop along next to them taking notes. When that didn't work well enough, he built a mini-train track on his property that he could be pulled along in a cart to better study the gallop. All this was done for his painting "Friedland" that he painted over 14 years. Amazing. Howard Lyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978302312790244145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-69880846015121550012014-04-14T14:42:10.126-04:002014-04-14T14:42:10.126-04:00So he used himself as a living camera, capturing t...So he used himself as a living camera, capturing the images himself?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02714982406166840646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-52462422770604274892014-04-14T12:38:00.476-04:002014-04-14T12:38:00.476-04:00James, just followed your link to your older post ...James, just followed your link to your older post on "flash-glancing". I do something like that when I have to draw people in motion, using my eyelids as a camera shutter, but I hadn't thought of it so much in term of looking at the afterimage, because I only do it for a split-second. I just blink and somehow that helps to isolate a pose from the preceding and subsequent stages of the motion. Perhaps I am looking at the afterimage momentarily without being conscious of it? I'll try to do it with a smaller "camera speed" and see what comes out. Thanks. :)<br /><br />ps: just curious, did you come by that trick intuitively or did you get it from reading about Morot (or some other source)? To me it came as sort of a tic, almost; at first a sort of clenching of the muscles when trying to stop the motion, and then the realization that letting the lids actually close somehow helped.António Araújohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03059765930331992020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-87143978836671302192014-04-14T10:56:50.623-04:002014-04-14T10:56:50.623-04:00Mama always told me drawing from life is the best ...Mama always told me drawing from life is the best teacher.SEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973124594477337066noreply@blogger.com