On my wall for the last nine months I've had a postcard reproduction of Henri Rousseau's Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) 1891. I have been getting to know a new set of 72 colour pencils by trying to reproduce sections of it on to paper.
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Funny you should post this for 2 reasons: first of all, having been in the national gallery London last week teaching and of course scrutinising paintings, I too have got back the urge to copy, which I used to do a lot. It taught me for example that Michelangelo was a very cartoony draughtsman and amazingly like Picasso (and no slouch at recycling older images from museums himself. My own desires prompted by looking first hand in London again) lead me more to the violent passions of the 17th century in the way Poussin Caravaggio or Gentileschi get across such a real sense of tragedy through the placing of bodies, gesture, light, shade and colour in their pictures. So I am heartened by your 'beginning again' initiative because I wanted to do something similar but felt shy because it just seemed catapulted in. I agree too about your earlier suggestion of reflecting on each other's images and working with those, and the notion of workign with other found images to uncover our own thread fits well with this; I will get my own image posted up soon and keep looking again at yours, and meditate them
the second reason I am struck by your choice (I did get to this point eventually!) is that the Rousseau painting was just about the last point of personal pilgrimage as I left the Gallery each day after my teaching session, so it's happy to see this here.
In short, this looks like a new thread, thanks! from Frances
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