To Be Continued

One more example of a "Gone Times" painting.
I had never before painted "realistic" scenes like these.
But then I read a book by David Hockney about the use of lenses in the creation of paintings.
After reading this book , I concluded that I should copy old photograps , by dividing them in 80 pixels (blocks) and copy these pixels on sight.
The result was in fact more or less the exact copy of the photo.
Only a lot bigger.
This only proofs , that when you draw a lot, you learned to look at things.

So, even without the use of a grid, to blow up the image, it should be possible to copy it exact.
This of course, if you are experienced a bit.

But starting out from a small old photograph, you soon learn that you need to add a lot of information to your painting.
For example large black parts of shadow.
They do the trick in a photograph.
But not in painting that needs to look realistic.
It is strange, that your brain believes the complete scene.
If you copy this plain black part on your painting, then it looks rather like a missing part.
Nothing happens there.

Or the posture of  a body (or parts of it).
You need to transform some details now and then.
If not, they tend to look like parts of a dissabled body.

This proofs that we look in an other way at a painting, then we look at a photograph.
I guess, that the painting (anyhow this style of painting) takes you to another universe.