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Published: 2016-09-18 04:34:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 2397; Favourites: 154; Downloads: 0
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oil on linen 80cm x 40cm This is the last painting to be done for my exhibition in 2weeks.Related content
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* Β‘FantΓ‘stico trabajo! Lo hemos destacado dentro de la carpeta "Featured nΒΊ3 Γ³ Destacados nΒΊ3" en Special-Groups. (Es la carpeta donde se exhiben los mejores trabajos del grupo).
Β‘Por favor, queremos ver mΓ‘s trabajos tuyos en el grupo!
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* Fantastic work! Featured in Special-Groups in folder Featured nΒΊ 3. (Best works of the group).Β
Please, We want to see more works in the group of you!
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A wonderful composition, great contrast between the hair falling down and the vine reaching up.
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Thanks Greta, it was the last painting of my latest exhibition and I think I was just trying something out. Normally I would push the idea with a few more paintings but that did not happen. I have lost my red haired model, she has gone to do studies in Scotland.
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What a shame. Hopefully, I will find or already have found another muse.
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Amazing lighting, love your style! I also really like this concept of the nature interwoven into her hair
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Thank you, yes I need to explore that concept more.
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Thank you, she is growing her hair to her knees, it is at her thighs at the moment. I will have to paint her then.
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Again, love how you've used her hair, from the way the colors in the hair and vine pull toward each other, to the wrapping, to the way the hair and vines begin to mimic each other as they flow down.
Eyes really are such a powerful metaphor, even when they are closed.Β I know how, even as just a tiny part of the overall work, they affect my sculpture work.Β Here, they create a feeling of total abandon, as if her inner consciousness is reaching into the vine (which, itself, has no eyes, yet can follow the energy of sunlight), sensing its presence through its touch.
Interesting how the clouds in the background look almost like steam boiling off of her skin...
(Oh, and great play on words in the title. 
Beautiful work!
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Yes, I want to explore that a bit more, see if I can over do it. That's what usually happens.
Phototropism, things that reach toward light. Closed eyes do give that ethereal, spiritual peace, but you have to tilt the head to get it right, then I paint on an angle to have the face straight again.
I thought about calling it smokin, but a bit crass.
I once drew a steam engine with a vine growing all through it and called it Divine Intervention. Names for paintings are so important.
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"Anything worth doing is worth OVER-doing."
Yeah, I've noticed the head tilt thing too, though I came to it more or less by just following what looked right.Β (One thing about clay is that you can continue to "tweak" a pose by tiny little bits until something just feels "right" about it.)
hehe... Titles.Β Wrote a journal entry on that some time ago.Β Funny thing is that, in the conversation which ensued, there were a couple of artists who argued (and I came to agree with) that there are times when it is actually best to not give a piece a title, in order to let the viewer take a completely fresh view of it.Β It's a delicate line to walk, but as you say, it's very important to spend time thinking about it.
Blessings!
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It usually works that way.
The one thing about art is, if it looks right it usually is right.
Thanks for the well wishes, I'll let you know how it goes.
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Yup. Β A lot of going with the gut feeling.
Following your updates on FB....
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This looks so Pre-Raphaelite, and so well painted!
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Thanks Vincent, you might almost say divine.
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This is so lovely and I like how the vines twirl around strands of her hair 
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Thanks Vanessa, I may have to take this a bit further and see what I can get up to.
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Thanks, the model has that spiritual type of nature that comes out in a painting.
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Thanks, I feel like I am just getting going and the exhibition is here.
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Thanks Anne,Β need all the luck I can get these days.
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Thanks Sara, glad you like it.
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Two weeks to go Phil, have to get them all down there Monday week. Then the suspense sets in.
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