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Keithspangle In reply to ShawnPleil [2016-01-20 15:15:46 +0000 UTC]

I used to go to bookstores and buy stuff for the covers.  Interestingly enough, I discovered that if I liked the cover I would generally like the book itself.

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ShawnPleil In reply to Keithspangle [2016-01-20 16:01:02 +0000 UTC]

Ya I did the same thing to.

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Keithspangle In reply to ShawnPleil [2016-01-20 16:58:31 +0000 UTC]

Back then if you wanted to paint Science-fiction themes you had to be an illustrator: the regular art world didn't take sci-fi seriously

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ShawnPleil In reply to Keithspangle [2016-01-20 18:23:12 +0000 UTC]

That was a shame. sci-fi has always been one of my favorite subjects in art. I have a huge collection
of sci-fi novels many of many of which I got just for the cover art.

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Keithspangle In reply to ShawnPleil [2016-01-20 18:32:05 +0000 UTC]

I think it is accepted more these days.  My biggest problem is competing with the work done by the computer graphics people for the movies!  Sometimes I feel like a Neanderthal who has just met a tribe of Cro-Magnons

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ShawnPleil In reply to Keithspangle [2016-01-20 19:00:10 +0000 UTC]

I like the new computer art that people are doing today.
But I still really like the old traditional stuff to.

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Keithspangle In reply to ShawnPleil [2016-01-20 19:12:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, the computer graphics these days are amazing!  

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Keithspangle In reply to CommanderEVE [2013-09-21 17:11:32 +0000 UTC]

I can't quite recall who was inspiring me back when I painted this.  Probably Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny, but I have been reading their stuff all my life.  Maybe I should try to figure it out: my current work is technically much better, but lacks the magic I felt back then.

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CommanderEVE In reply to Keithspangle [2013-09-21 18:33:19 +0000 UTC]

Indeed, but  it is nice to see how your artwork has progressed. 

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Keithspangle In reply to CommanderEVE [2013-09-21 21:15:03 +0000 UTC]

I need to regain some of that old idealism and magic.  Maybe play some old music and spend more time with the hummingbirds in the back yard.

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CommanderEVE In reply to Keithspangle [2013-09-22 01:04:04 +0000 UTC]

Maybe, but it is usually caused by living in that area and it being all around you. 

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Keithspangle In reply to CommanderEVE [2013-09-22 16:00:25 +0000 UTC]

Maybe I should start a series of hummingbird paintings .  I have tons of pictures of the little guys...might as well make them earn all that nectar I've been making for them.

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Keithspangle In reply to Arcalian [2012-01-29 16:44:44 +0000 UTC]

I should do another "hardware" Science Fiction painting like this...a BIG one!

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Arcalian In reply to Keithspangle [2012-01-29 20:05:40 +0000 UTC]

Big or small, more spacecraft would be awesome!

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Keithspangle In reply to Arcalian [2012-01-29 20:47:23 +0000 UTC]

but big is better, no?

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Keithspangle In reply to ShaoriDragonblood [2012-01-22 21:11:59 +0000 UTC]

Big problem now is a conspicuous lack of gumption, but I'm working on it!

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