Today, started the underpainting too 'All The Broken Hearted'. Difficult this, as it's largely imaginary, and the poses and lighting on the textures require a lot of invention. Dali railed against imagination painting in this way, but did so out of frustration. Invention and adding more than is there in reality is part of the skill of painting, and an essential part of self expression - we are not human cameras. Bierstadt's mountains and Edwin Church's clouds are more real than reality, they are beyond nature, caricatures.
