New painting started
May. 6th, 2003 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I said I would paint this almost a year ago. I wasn't happy with my first attempt and scrapped it. Even though I'm only as far as blocking it in, I'm much more pleased with this second attempt. This is a departure from my other work, but it is the reason I started taking all those pictures.
Nightclub #1.2
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Date: 2003-05-06 08:44 am (UTC)The aethetics of myopia
Date: 2003-05-06 12:47 pm (UTC)Re: The aethetics of myopia
Date: 2003-05-06 01:34 pm (UTC)Re: The aethetics of myopia
Date: 2003-05-06 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-06 09:43 am (UTC)Is the use of bright happy colours intentional?
It seems to contrast the intended mood of the
peice. Everything AROUND the characters is bright , positive and happy while the characters themselves are gloomy
dark and introverted (lonely).
Is this an "Always look on the bright side of life?" type piece?
Or is this an "I didn't have enough blue paint" peice/
?!?
> Or is this an "I didn't have enough blue paint" peice/
How about an unfinished piece. "Even though I'm only as far as blocking it in..." Did gloss over the text and just jump right in to critiquing the picture as if it were a finished work? Or do you just not know what "blocked in" means?
Obviously people don't have blue skin, but because blue shows through the I start with blue underneath to allow it to subtly show through. It's an ancient technique. Mediaeval painters used green grounds for flesh, but only because blue was too expensive (the expense of blue paint is why the Virgin Mary's robes are so often blue in Renaissance painting - her importance merited the expense).
At this stage in the game, unless you have significant exerience in painting with acrylics, understand the effect I'm aiming for, and have worthwhile technical advice to that end, all you are qualified to critque is general the composition independent of hue, saturation, or value.
wwwhooooaaa!
Date: 2003-05-06 07:15 pm (UTC)I am interpreting what I see in it ...
No .. I don't know what "blocked in" means ..and as far as the reference to blue - that was an arbitrary colour pulled off the top of my head.
I could have said green , purple or plaid....
"At this stage in the game, unless you have significant exerience in painting with acrylics, understand the effect I'm aiming for, and have worthwhile technical advice to that end, all you are qualified to critque is general the composition independent of hue, saturation, or value."
And at this stage in the reply , unless your are clear that was I actually trying to give your work bad criticism, and you have a clear understanding of what I was thinking,all you are qualified to do is as for clarification as to what my intentions was.
Qualified? I was talking the emotional impact of the current colour sceme in response to the content - NOTHING about technique. So since I have optic nerves wich perceive the visible spectrum of colour, and since I feel emotion
(actually thats quaetionable)
.. I am qualified to express the impact on me (no-one else)
Re: wwwhooooaaa!
We're a bit bitter, Ryan.
Too much time spent in Art School listening to 'experts' drone on and on incessantly about content tends to make one a bit jaded. Nonetheless, it's unusual for an artist to display their work while yet unfinished - consider this a peek into something few ever see. I for one am really 'touchy' about sharing my work before I feel it's done...
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Date: 2003-05-07 10:44 am (UTC)(Bar Stationery)
Not presentable (or even readable) but functional.
However - if someone were to critique that scrawled pic
"man that is the worse most poorly drawn peice of crap
I have ever seen" I would agree
"You're right .. it is crap...."
not try to defend what I know is not the finsihed product. Cement foudations are not architecture, Lights and a camera are not movies, a stage is not a play.
But to me I do find the unfinished peice fascinating due to
the unlimited possibilities of what it CAN become though it may differ from the artists original intention.
Bad Analogy
Date: 2003-05-07 01:30 pm (UTC)See where I was coming from now?
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Date: 2003-05-07 02:09 pm (UTC)bloody ghost ship. what if all the black was a night sky?
What if I was creating the graphics for the 386 computer monitor
readout for a Sci-fi movie? A retro-tech chic piece?
In fact I *did* use a wireframe render for the finished shot
on a few of my shots to represent a Cybogs POV in that very same animation.
But it might just be a question of context
If, if, if.
Date: 2003-05-07 09:40 pm (UTC)> it might just be a question of context
Yes, the context in this case being, "New painting started" and "Even though I'm only as far as ..."
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Date: 2003-05-06 11:07 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-05-06 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-06 11:18 am (UTC)The figure in white in the back I'm pretty damn sure is Daevina... not sure who the girl beside her is. Is the figure in the foreground me?
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Date: 2003-05-06 11:52 am (UTC)I am sure that is daevina. But I am thinking that the hair for the foreground character is wrong for you. I also haven't seen yo wear a high colar sleeveless shirt before. The guy I am picturing is the guy who dances in the corner and wears sunglasses in the club (although in this pic he isn't) and had the high coloar PVC sleeveless shirt.
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Date: 2003-05-06 12:03 pm (UTC)But I think you're right --- the lack of dreads on the back of the head is one thing, plus you're totally on about the collar. Plus the forward pelvis stance is 100% Alen. So I second your theory!
Alen, Kate, & Daevina
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