A painting should be constructed with all the trickeries of a crime.

Yesterday, just before heading to Carphone Warehouse to buy a new phone, I was sitting in my studio listening to a YouTube interview I previously mentioned with Vincent Desiderio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K62SBQYQ53M

He quoted Degas, “A painting should be constructed with all the trickeries of a crime, then add the accents of nature, a lie through which the truth is revealed.” I love this idea then I sat down to write my blog this morning, using my new Huawei P30 Lite to take photos of recent painting developments from last week:

That awful feeling when you realise how a camera can lie.

My subtle glazing with transparent red earth and Phthalo blue had been transformed by Huawei into a rotting insipid looking apple. Admittedly my apple has been ageing and I was enjoying working with this in my painting, but it really wasn’t this bad.

I read Frank Doorhof’s s comments online it seems Huawei have serious problems with their colour balance and over-compensation exposure of dark areas. The phones built in artificial intelligence feature auto corrects to what it thinks you want to see 

I raced off to Carphone Warehouse with my apple painting, Kodak Ektra and  Huawei P30 phones. The staff were fantastic and thoroughly attentive as we were the only people standing in the shop, obviously 2 metres apart. Stretching the security cables on multiple display phones we photographed the apple painting under the benches to avoid the fluorescent light sheen. Here is the Samsung version:

Finally I walked out with a Samsung phone on order. All I have to say to Hauawei is, take the bloody photo and leave the trickery to me!