9 October
I’m working on a portrait of our mother because the black photograph was making me too impatient.
Ah, what portraits we could make from life with photography and painting! I always have hopes that a great revolution still awaits us in portraiture.
I’m writing home to have our father’s portrait too. Myself, I don’t want black photographs, and yet I still want to have a portrait. The one of our mother, a no. 8 canvas, will be ashy, on a green background, and her clothes carmine. I don’t know if it will be a good resemblance, but I want an impression of blond colouring, at least. You’ll see it one day, and if you like I’ll do one for you too. It will be in heavy impasto again.
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‘What portraits we could make from life with photography and painting!’ If only Van Gogh could see what happened when color photography and digital cameras were introduced …
Yes, some future opinion already!!Obviously, he wasn’t all that mad!
Myself, being a very amateurish watercolourist, paint from outback photos, and since photography is so good these days, I don’t need to sit outside and submit myself to flies, and the heat here in OZ.
Have not seen your whole website yet, but it’s wonderful to have everything of van Gogh at your fingertips!!
“You’ll see it one day, and if you like I’ll do one for you too. It will be in heavy impasto again.”
Long live Van gaugh
Mad as a box of frogs