Hi selliot, a while ago you sent me a message that i tried to answer but it did not go through. Here is your message and my answer.

"Do you think it's easier to get great detail on small works or large ones? I rarely work on anything bigger than 11 x =
14". i use pen and ink and watercolor, and colored pencil. Thanks for =
you comment."

Small detail tends to look fussy in large  paintings and in smaller works it draws one in for closer inspection.  However I can point out works that are just the opposite and work fine. Detail is of no interest to me for its own sake, when it is at the service of the whole that it becomes important as in the many strokes of the pen to get the feeling of horse hair or dots of paint to indicate the wind ruffling water. However many great masters have the technique to indicate detail with broad strokes and an few telling small touches. For horses, Google, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer.

Cheers, Lawrence Wallin

how has your summer been? have you been on this site much? making art? enjoying the beach??!!

Hi Sue,

I thought you would like this site

http://www.treespiritproject.com/

if for nothing else but the trees, gorgeous photography......

Kara

Thank you for you comments on my work, glad you liked it!. That's the thing with summer: unless its raining, who wants to be inside?

Marilyn 

Hi Sue, LTNS!

I am not on this website as much these days, maybe I got burnt out early on.. also, I am busy painting, and working on plans for the fall. Let me know how you feel after you read the book. I think Jeanne Carbonetti is more abstract a painter than I am, especially with her color choices. I look forward to seeing more of your art (after you read the book!)

Robin