Leisure Painter

Painting project

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Use a photo as a starting point

Form a view and make decisions

Create something new and unique

The key word for me in the phrase ‘painting from a summer holiday photo’ is . Its dictionary definition is ‘the place where someone or something starts’ so why do so many of us use the photograph as our intended destination? In other words, we fall into the trap of copying or replicating the image, rather than using it as the starting

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