1. Copyright Sean S. McGraw, 2013 All Rights Reserved The Making of Pictures Misconceptions about creating art

2. Copyright Sean S. McGraw, 2013 All Rights Reserved I am sure we all have looked at a painting or drawing done by a famous artist and thought-wow! what imagination and skill - it looks so real. I would bet you have struggled to create realistic art from your imagination, seeing what you want but finding it hard to make it look real on paper or canvas. Its truly amazing that great artists of could record so clearly the images from their imagination, they must have been genius to be able to draw or paint such realistic characters, scenes and events out of their head.

3. Copyright Sean S. McGraw, 2013 All Rights Reserved These paintings are testament to the artists genius. It’s amazing! how did the artists get the lighting and color correct? It must be a gift, to know how to paint like that from one’s imagination and make it look so real.

4. Copyright Sean S. McGraw, 2013 All Rights Reserved Or is it? Notice the models and how closely they are portraying the picture. If you had models to arrange and dress in costume, do you think it would be easier to create the scenes you imagine?

5. Copyright Sean S. McGraw, 2013 All Rights Reserved Here we can clearly see the model; dressed and on a stand to get the right look of sitting on a horse, along with the finished painting.

6. Copyright Sean S. McGraw, 2013 All Rights Reserved Even without live models artists were able to use specially designed mannequins to get the correct proportion, light, value, intensity etc., in the painting.

7. Copyright Sean S. McGraw, 2013 All Rights Reserved