SG Realia (Ongoing)

Photo of me painting outside Peranakan Museum. Photo Credit: YL/1.0. 

Good that there's quite a bit of documentation of me painting outside, just in case some 斯文败类 purist (f)artist says I didn't "paint from life" like a "true" artist or some shit, you know especially from the ateLIAR/pseudo-academic cult type of people. It doesn't matter to me because I could paint from my head if I really wanted to. I actually prefer painting from life, because the camera tends to be rather stupid in exposure, especially in low-light situations. It's much more fun, and also trains your efficiency/creativity in set-up, materials and process. Most atelier dickheads I've met, despite their puritan "only paint-from-life" position, paint really badly in a compressed time and outdoors. So my point is, just ignore what puritans say, if you like to paint from photos, do that too, it is working with artistic intelligence and sensitivity which matters, and not about following "the one right method" (there isn't).