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9home to paint, designating an area where
he could work. As he was setting up his
space, she walked into the room with her
hands behind her back, and said, “I’m not
really ready to collaborate, but why don’t
you paint this instead?” Braldt comments,
“She then presented me with the largest
artichoke I had ever seen from behind her
back. I decided to try to paint it. When it
was done, Carol said, ‘See? You can do it!’”
Braldt next decided to tackle a landscape,
beginning Eventide on a 42-by-42-inch wood
panel. “I thought I would begin painting
loosely like Carol and then tighten it up,
rather than starting with my usual tight
pencil drawing. I drew just one pencil line
and said, ‘This is the horizon.’ The landscape
would simply come from my imagination.
It wouldn’t have anything close up so there
wouldn’t be a lot of detail. I filled up the sky
in two days with big brushes and painted in
the setting sunlight. I thought of having alake and then a tiny stream beginning in the
background and coming to the foreground
with the darkening sky reflected in it. I drew
the landscape with my brush with green
shades. But every time I returned to the
studio, I couldn’t help myself. I kept returning
to my smaller and smaller brushes. I thought,
‘Forget it Braldt. You are who you are.’”Want to See More?
http://www.braldtbraldsstudio.comWoody, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 "