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I Cannot Help You
Published: 2002-02-15 19:02:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 11078; Favourites: 169; Downloads: 806
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Oil on panel. 8x10 in. 1996.Note: title is a quote from the professor for whom this painting was produced.
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ODDS (oibyrd's daily deviations) are to honor the sometimes overlooked artists of dA that I personally think deserve some exposure (and ALSO, to show off people who I think are undeniably talented in their own genre of art, REGARDLESS of their #'s of fav's or pageviews. I like what I like and sometimes artwork isn't featured in the regular DDs because of sheer numbers. It's a shame, but the admins are only trying to be fair ). Please click the link below to see your work featured and to view other featured artists. If you prefer not to be a featured artist, just send me a note and I will remove you from the list. Cheers! xoxo Sandi
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Beautifull painting, i'm happy to found this old Daily Dev. I need some comment on this painting [link] can I have your opinion?
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very nice.
this is an excelent piece.
keep it up!
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I love it, I love it, I LOVE it! 
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your, very, very talented!! That reminds me of a really twisted phantom of the opera...I love it!
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Chillingly beautiful. You're a great painter.
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The detail is brilliant and the whole feel of the piece is very gothic. I keep thinking that it looks like some kind of curiosity in an 18th century museum. Brilliant.
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this picture is A-W-E-S-O-M-E!!!! i am addicted to scary pictures. the best bit is the 3d effect on the skin that makes it look as though the skin could just peeeel away....
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The painted subject, or the painting style?
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pretty wild. everyone and their dog has already commented on your piece, but I thought one more wouldn't hurt.
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one more never hurts
Thank you
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That Is how do I say... Freakin Awsome!! It looks so real... but It's NOT!!!!
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Ever considered doing another painted self-port? Sans macabre infrastructure, perhaps...
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Considered? yes. Sans macabre? probably no time soon.
my fantasy self-portraits are probably the nearest I come to cathartic art
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Cathartic is good.
Still, it's time for another port.
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you're going to exacerbate my shyness if you don't quit asking me for portraits
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"I love the place your mind was in when you created this."
I can't help but be made terribly curious by a line like that.
Tell me about, and why you love, that place.
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Well, it's not simply because of the overall macabre aspect of the piece. I'm not really into the dark and dismal, if that's what you'd like to know. In the same place this darkness lives, there also lives a space filled with introspection and self-study. It's *that* which draws me. I do it a bit myself, though have never carried it to this level (perhaps I should).
The set of the one eye looking at us...but not quite looking at us, and the capture of the highlights on the skin of the lower lip, and how the upper lip just barely reflects it - are just brilliant. You were really noticing all possible elements. Some of us would do well to look this closely sometime. I don't think it was just the surface you were capturing.
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Sometimes I like to go back and re-examine pieces I haven't looked at for a while. Today I chose this one. I love the place your mind was in when you created this. The execution is perfect, if anatomically off (the skull size, but you already know that). BUT, the point of this piece isn't anatomical study, but something much deeper. To me, it conveys the thinness of the veil between the living and the dead.
That little detail of the earring...how perfect and golden it is, even hiding in the shadows like that. Were it me, I might have overpowered it with too much color - but this is how it *should* be done.
Slaìnte Mha,
JenCB
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Verrry realistic. This is so cool! You've laid the skin over quite nicely is this a study of anatomy?
p.s. I love oil on panel, it's one of my favorite mediums. Panel just gives the paint a cool look.
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no, I actually did this before I took my indepth anatomy classes. If I'd done this later, I might have been tempted to make the skull-half a bit smaller (it would be, realistically). However, I think the size helps balance the piece better, and emphasizes the thinness of life over death.
PPS: yes, panel is definately the best for detail & control; there are some longevity issues if you use masonite, though.
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yeah, canvas seems to work best for preserving things, but in 400 yrs will you really care what condition your work is in? Well maybe, but enjoying things while they last is fun.
take care
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This is simply a beautiful piece. Extremely well done...The essentials are all there, as well as a flare of style. Awesome.
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Absolutely amazing work...so lifelike and so well executed. Congratulations for getting a mention in the devart mag, and for your daily deviation award.
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what a wonderful painting! really, really well done! amazing actually! wow!
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I really dig this dev, have you painted it?
AWESOME!!!!!
You went right into my deviantwatch dear neighboar. (I'm Norwegian)
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Stunning. This reminds me of a British forensic reconstruction I saw once. From a skull, a forensic scientist made a reconstruction of a person's face before all the damage done to it.
Stunning.
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Elphaba Stevens
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Very nice. Class assignment? It clearly seeks to demonstrate, or show, knowledge of bone to skin. I like.
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Wow great painting I love darker ideas and styles
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Art is but an Elusion that we all create
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great painting
this must have taken a lot of time
one little critic:
the nose looks like it is pressed on a window or glass
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Mom would be proud!!!
(in fact I think she is, but you probably know that.)
Brother Brown
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wow! super
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This rocks ! I made it a favorite. Thanks for sharing it
What sort of people live about here?asked Alice.
In that direction, the Cat said, waving its right paw round, lives a Hatter: and in that direction, waving the other paw, lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad.
But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked.
Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat we're all mad here..
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you did an awesome super job. it's hard work. hard to paint like that.
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the difference between theory and practice, in practice, is much bigger than the difference between theory and practice, in theory.
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like it
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amazing..................very niicely done.
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