Shay wrote:

> Have you experimented with Radiance?
> http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html
> 
Haven't tried it, interesting app though.  I am slowly making my way to 
doing a Linux install.  Time and money are the factors mostly.
> I watched a program about Vermeer last night. He had some jaw dropping
> light effects. I wasn't familiar with him before, but I'm definitely a
> fan now. 
He's pretty easy to like.  And the fact that only this small ouvre of 
paintings remains with almost no information about his life.  The 
romantic fantasy of many a painter/artist I suspect.  The beauty of my 
paintings becomes my identity, not the squalor of my actual life.


I felt hugely happy with myself when I saw that he was fond of
> a coloring technique with which I have been personally experimenting. 

He favours thinly applied paint and the primaries, yellow:blue:red. 
Like Mondrian.

I
> want to order a print of 'Girl in a Red Hat', but I'm not sure I can
> find one which represents the actual size (looked about 9" tall on the
> program).

Yes, maybe an overlarge postcard?  Personally I have completely given in 
to the seduction of seeing small, intimate paintings blown up to poster 
size.  There is too much of it around.  It takes too much energy to 
resist.  But it is a bit vulgar. Voyeuristic.

On the other hand it is also de rigor in university art history courses 
where materials are presented through projected slides.  And such 
courses can marry a very sensuous with an intellectually enrichening 
experience.  And, the same with posters, there is the feeling of getting 
inside the artwork in a way.  Maybe the modern appreciation of art is to 
violate it?

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