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Blue Velvet
Published: 2007-11-15 06:41:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 34883; Favourites: 1512; Downloads: 0
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Oil on canvas, 120 cm X 90cm. Aprox. 100 hours.Portrait of Karen, this was going to be my entry in the trad art day contest, but I just didn't get it finished in time try as I might.
The blue took me FOREVER. ugh.
Photo a bit grainy, but you get that I guess.
Will put a WIP slideshow up at some point, wee bit tired right now.
a DD! hooray! Much love and thanks to sbaraci and stigmatattoo
Also to Karen for modeling, inspiration, putting up with my bitching about painting blue for 2 weeks, and feeding and watering me during the project.
Oh and also for being by my side through the good and bads
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Comments: 393
Looking through your galleryand at this in particular, my impression is, you're partial to blue 
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I love it, the texture is really realistic and that blue is really great. The contrast of the bright velvet on her pale skin is wonderful.
I noticed you were discussing portraits not being sale-able so you have the model's face turned away. I've been struggling with this. I'm in a gallery now and I'm also doing portraits on commission. I really like doing portraits and figure drawings but you just can't sell them on their own. I understand the reason for this, people wouldn't buy a portrait of a random person to hang on their wall. (Myself, I have a whole room filled with faces and figure paintings, but that's what I love) I guess there needs to be enough of an ambiguity about the subject in the painting that you don't feel it's a portrait. I still have a lot to learn!
Anyway, you do amazing work!
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So thoroughly deserving of a DD... Inspiring work.
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David! This is gorgeous, so romantic and soft! And, I love the blue
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thanks, I was pretty happy with it strangely enough..
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Lovely, you some how make it both a piece of art from now and much like one of the old masters done 300 or 400 years ago, all at the same time. Really well done!
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OMG it's gorgeous. I love blue, and what an amazing job on the fabric!
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It's incredible - especially the blue
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Woohoo! so glad to see something new from you. And congrats on yet another DD! you deserve them all and more. 
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thanks
I'm pretty stoked with the DD, massive favs makes you feel clever. Only one painting of Jack Sparrow ahead of me now..and I'm catching up
hehe
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Wow, that fabric is incredible!
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thanks
just about drove me nuts
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That is terribly amazing! I don't understand how you do it...
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Mostly by spending forever in the studio and never seeing the light of day or my firends for a month straight..
no really...
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Amazing....it seems to be a photograph!!!
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I thought it was a picture...so real ...
Wowy...
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i swear i thought that was a potograph. you are truly amazing!
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no problem
someone better be paying a ton of money to be that good!
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an utterly amazing piece, you have an amazing talent!
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wow! i thought that was a picture at first glance. Great detail.
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+that deliciously wrinkled underfoot among the fabric really does it for me. excellent!+
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thank you, and cheers for the feature, means a lot, particualy since it's an image of Karen, they allways mean more to me
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nice painting great details! love it
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...beautifully composed, colored, and constructed work
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