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Ipaint nick5/7/2023 ![]() I love the last 10 percent most, and want to get there as fast as I can. I don’t love each step in a painting equally. I gravitated toward the grid because it facilitates my getting to the meat of the painting faster and more accurately. From there I draw in a grid in white colored pencil that matches the grid I have put over the source photo. I haven’t wavered from this too many times over the years, but when I have, it would have been to experiment with a yellow ground or a sepia ground. I start by laying down a gray ground in oil paint. I always start a painting the same way, regardless of the subject matter. ![]() ![]() I see a scene, and sometimes I know immediately that I must make it into a painting. That is the essence of what I’m trying to do. In my statement that I wrote over 20 years ago, I say that I paint what I want to see. Sometimes a scene gives me a sense of a moment - something just happened or is about to, and I’m privileged enough to witness the moment in between. Sometimes it leans toward melancholy, in that there is a sense of isolation in many of my interiors. I see something and it gives me a feeling somewhere between pleasure and edgy. It hits me in the gut, to use a loose reference. I see subjects for paintings when I’m not looking for them all the time. By that I mean part of my process seems to be a natural (or a second nature by now) way of seeing things. Nick Patten: I guess it would be fair to say that my process feeds my inspiration. What inspires you, and once it hits, how do you approach a painting? How Process Feeds Inspiration: Paintings by Nick Pattenįine Art Today: Let us begin with your creative process.
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