What to use?

I will probably be using Chuck Close, Edgar Degas, and To the Lighthouse.


This piece is done by finger prints with pencil. I think there is something amazing about the organic nature of it. there was nothing in between him and the canvas - no brush or pen in the way. I think it speaks to him and to her. I can create a life story for this woman that might be all wrong, but who knows?

I love this piece because it's a glace at this dancer privately stretching for herself. she has a whole story of performance, of passion. I get a view into it and can create her entire life story - understand it for a moment...but perhaps I've got it all wrong. Does that take away from it?

quotations from To the Lighthouse:
“All these were so coloured and distinguished in his mind that he had already his private code, his secret language, though he appeared the image of stark and uncompromising severity, with his high forehead and his fierce blue eyes, impeccably candid and pure, frowning slightly at the sight of human frailty” (3-4).

“When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey, her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better—her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties” (6).

QUESTION: Is there an image or a description in a book (including To the Lighthouse) that stood out to you? that makes you create an image or a story?

What about when a book - in which the story is given, and then you create the images - is made into a movie? When you saw Harry Potter for the first time after reading the book, were the images like what you had imagined? Did it take away from the books or make it better? Wasn't it difficult to then picture anything beside Daniel Radcliffe when you turned to the new books after seeing the movie? why? !!