If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You might as well buy a filbert and take the scissors and cut off half of what you paid for.
Nelson ShanksI almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.
Nelson ShanksRealism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.
Nelson ShanksPhotographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.
Nelson Shanks