tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post1894689945489087787..comments2024-03-25T09:56:16.164+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: Writings and paintingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-7157017223288361572014-08-01T07:44:18.870+01:002014-08-01T07:44:18.870+01:00This was a brilliantly delicious post, Clementine....This was a brilliantly delicious post, Clementine. I'm sorry I missed it on the day but its just as wonderful in retrospect. I was a children's art teacher in another life and also see things in images but I'd never made quite so strong a comparison as you do. <br />I think part of the success of Donna Tart's The Goldfinch, for me, was that this was an actual painting... and such an intimate small painting that it seemed the perfect image to encapsulate the boy's life... caged by circumstances and caged by the painting as well. <br />Thank you for a fascinating blog. Dianne Hofmeyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222157214605257030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-57648624099799090572014-07-28T11:44:59.396+01:002014-07-28T11:44:59.396+01:00Art galleries are stimulating and wonderful places...Art galleries are stimulating and wonderful places to browse when you feel ideas are low. They always seem to be whispering "stories", though that is rather unfair on the artists. A strong visual image - real or imagined - can hold together the writing of a story. Or poem. Really nice post.Penny Dolanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16386668303428008498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-83494861042564668792014-07-28T10:28:38.895+01:002014-07-28T10:28:38.895+01:00Thank you for this. It's always fascinating to...Thank you for this. It's always fascinating to learn something of how other writers think and imagine.<br /><br />I can't say that I make any connection with art - unless I'm deliberately looking for some detail of clothing or equipment from the past.<br /><br />And I can't imagine reading or writing without the scene being projected on some inner screen. Nor could I ever write about a character without knowing what they look like and how they move - because I have to be able to see them. At the very least I have some vague idea of height, colouring, build. Often I 'cast' them.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.com