I've been into music and painting for quite some time. Whistler did "The Piano Lesson". "The Banjo Lesson" is by Henry Ossawa. I would like to call into attention how rigid or natural a painting is. The banjo lesson seems to breathe on its own, but the piano lesson is set in stone. How about the posing of the characters in the scene? The banjo lesson seems extremely intimate and the piano lesson seems distant and uncaring. I'm just comparing painting style and character placement in 2 paintings of something I know: music. Too bad I got so few lessons.
I went back to looking things up and found "The Guitar Lesson" by Pierre Augutse Renoir. The style of painting and arrangement of characters is in between piano and banjo lessons. I also searched around for what I was going to make and found plenty of jam session and band paintings. Mine is just an overly developed cartoon in my notebook, but I wanted to just get it out of my head and into a sketchbook.
