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Keithspangle — Death and the Poet
Published: 2012-01-22 16:46:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 3604; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 60
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A small (8" X 12"(?) that I did a few years ago with the idea of doing it again larger. I showed this before in a previous DA incarnation.music:[link]
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Thank you!....Oils on Canvas
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Definitely my favourite from your gallery. What an incredibly powerful composition.
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Thank you!
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Keith, you are an exceptional painter.
Your stuff is atmospheric and lovely in the tradition
of the best Golden Age illustrators.
It baffles me utterly that you don't pursue painting more.
Consider yourself nagged.
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Thank you! I am really having a hard time getting the gumption going to get out and paint.
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I know that feeling...and those paintings of yours look like
major undertakings. But so worth the effort!
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Yeah...seems the hard part is just placing my aging rear end in the chair in front of the canvas! After that, I seem to do ok.
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That's better than having trouble
getting your aging rear out of a chair.
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Maybe stronger coffee and pumping up the volume on Led Zepplin 1. Electric shock has its advocates too!
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Electric shock has its advocates.
So does Newt Gingrich.
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True, although I'd be more tempted to compare Newt to a cast of food poisoning rather than electric shock....I am seriously thinking of hiring a model (again) and doing three hours a week of life drawing/painting just to get myself back into the habit of doing art...it may not result in great art, but getting to hang out with a reasonably attractive (and naked) lady would do wonders for my morale.
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Oh are they invariably attractive?
My experience with live models was that
they only need be human, but then I wasn't
the one paying their wages.
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With one exception, the models I've hired were at least pleasant to be around. All were attractive to some extent. I'll have to see who's available. The last stock photo I saw that inspired art was one you put up a year or so ago.
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I remember that one, it was a beauty and so
was your resulting painting. I just faved it again.
The models we had in school were usually ordinary in
appearance but eccentric and interesting personalities.
Often students themselves, earning pocket money, so to speak.
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I modeled a couple of times in school...mostly to see if I could actually do it. As long as I didn't try any contortions, I was fine. Easy money.
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I always figured after the first ten minutes in a
half hour pose it might not feel like such easy money.
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My modeling career was a bit brief...so I only had to do one long pose....which wasn't too bad. I suppose it would have been a bit tedious over a long career.
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were you eccentric and interesting?
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If that is a polite was of saying "weird" and "confusing", then I would say yes.
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I was checking out the universality of my experience with
life drawing models. They were almost but not quite invariably
eccentric and interesting.
Weird and confusing sounds promising.
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The one I was talking to today also does burlesque. Promising indeed!
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Just try to maintain your perspective.
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Well, I had one model who was a published poetess and who babysat for Carl Sagan...now I might get one who can juggle bowling pins....there just HAS to be some artistic inspiration somewhere in this.
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Maybe you need to switch out your brushes
and canvas for a typewriter.
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Hmmmm...but then I wouldn't need a model.
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That is a complication.
Never mind the memoir then.
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Perhaps I could find a model who can also write.
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I was thinking you could do the writing, but that's what I get
for trying to interfere.
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Actually, at one time, I had pretensions of becoming a writer. This lasted until I sat down and seriously TRIED to write. Now I have resigned myself to finding someone who can hold a pose, juggle bowling pins and string words together.
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