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Fish-man In reply to the-math-magician [2009-09-27 19:56:54 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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Fish-man In reply to LovelyAlien [2009-07-27 06:20:59 +0000 UTC]

yeah, of all the things I have to do I think fiddling around with this painting is pretty low on the rung right now.

The entire thing is totally acrylic; it was kind of a send-off to the medium for me to really play around with color and medium, since I probably won't have much opportunity to paint in the next year or so. I actually researched a lot finally on acrylics and even scrounged up a couple new colors before starting it, and I think it shows.

Thanks -everyone thinks that the clothing is a high point, and I think the colors come through much better in real life, so I've taken that to heart

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LovelyAlien In reply to Fish-man [2009-07-27 14:48:00 +0000 UTC]

Wow, the acrylic is so smooth it almost looks like pastel.
Every time I try painting something with acrylic,
there are always ugly white spots or places where the paint blotched,
but your rendition here is free of those completely.
How did you manage?

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Fish-man In reply to LovelyAlien [2009-07-27 20:40:52 +0000 UTC]

thanks. I know all too well what you're talking about with blotching and white spots, I had a huge problem with it all before because I tried to use water as a means of keeping the paint most, but there's a lot of problems that arise with that. So essentially with this painting I used a lot of medium filler, both gloss and molding pastes to spread around on the canvas while I painted a certain section; it kept the paint workable, stretched out its use and made it much, much more pleasing to blend with. The only problem is that despite everything, the paint would still dry relatively quickly, so if I was working on any section for more than an hour I'd run into difficulty. it was pretty fun but I think I'm going to look into oil painting if I ever take another class, simply because I hear it takes a lot longer for them to dry, and that's definitely a plus in my eyes. hopefully I won't get too damaged if I ever get into oil painting, I tend to be a bit of a messy painter

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Fish-man In reply to ragingpie [2009-07-13 03:54:25 +0000 UTC]

ps thanks for letting me bore you

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Fish-man In reply to ragingpie [2009-07-13 03:54:02 +0000 UTC]

haha, nah, I don't ever have a real story behind anything I paint, but I DO have the intention to give that illusion; one of my favorite things about painting is the way it can inspire someone's imagination. Movies are expository, but with photography and painting there's a really fun opportunity to try and get people to imagine scenarios you set up. So yeah, I just start with initial ideas for paintings that I find compelling, some of them are wrought with my own intentions but other things are purely a subconscious affair. I have this weird compelling force to draw stuff like children and rabbits, as products of an environment that is largely unobservable and thus incomprehensible. I think they usually come out feeling a little disturbing because I'm so compelled to mix in both tragedy and happiness into single pieces; I've struggled a lot this year with the idea of when happiness is humanely allowable. So that's what Rabbit Father and RBBT FTHR and Rabbit Brother have been, although originally they were a part of a series that was initially intended to be tied with "Eva," which is actually a fairly thought out piece about fame and poststructuralism I came up with after writing an essay about Eva Peron.

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Fish-man In reply to jonny-arson [2009-07-11 16:29:26 +0000 UTC]

thanks! I'll keep it in mind.

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Fish-man In reply to Alfredbear [2009-07-10 05:05:17 +0000 UTC]

this is all I could ask for

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Fish-man In reply to jeezkay [2009-07-10 05:54:20 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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