One of my instructors once said that you need to get to know your subject; go over there and look at it closely, touch it, stand on it, if you can. When you do that, you can paint with more "authority". Following his advice, I have tried to immerse myself into everything I paint. I hiked the trails, hunted the moose and deer in the Maine Northwoods, canoed on the rivers, fished the trout, cooked, and ate it. I bought a lobsterboat and caught lobsters, photopraphed lobsterboats, islands along the coast, the brakers on the rocks. Following that same philosophy, the other day I went out with two local fishermen fishing for halibut. Here are some of the photos I took, "on location."
Nice catch, boys!
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