That’s why it doesn’t bother her if the photographs she takes of landscapes around her community don’t look exactly like the end product if she chooses to paint them.
Hubbard uses the photographs less as a blueprint of a painting and more of a bit of inspiration. For example, one photograph documents a pasture in the light of day, capturing a horse grazing and a tree standing tall out in the field. Hubbard did derive a painting from it, but she transformed the landscape to a night view, eliminated the horse, and changed the tree to a different type. The photograph elicited a normal, ordinary feeling. The painting, on the other hand, inspired a magical feeling, one of mystery and soothing calm.
It’s not important to Hubbard that she paints her artwork true to the photograph. She focuses more on taking the image to the next level, working to make her canvas express emotions that pull the viewers in more than they perhaps would have with the original image. Hubbard uses oil paints as her primary medium.
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