Decided to glaze Spree Killer despite the prediction of a rainy day; it was rainy but easily light enough.
Detail painting is an expression of confidence. You tell the viewer: "You think you know where this crease, or this eyelash, is? Well, here is where it is. Here exactly."
In surrealistic (hyper-reality) painting, the clarity and details reflects a clarity of thought - real things are absolutely clear and lucid; the dialogue of the art is not about what something looks like, the dialogue is about what the idea means, the subject on an intellectual level. In an 'impressionistic' painting, the gaps in what is finished creates the dialogue; the viewer fills in their preferred details on a visual interpretive level.
Perhaps then, detail painting is the diametrical opposite to 'abstract' painting where anything can look like anything. Perhaps things come full circle in surrealistic-dream-style painting, where inkblots look like different things to the viewer.
