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litka — A Lane in Blues
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Published: 2010-11-23 13:57:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 674; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 46
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12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboardAh! The perfect antidote to my 'character building' exercise of drawing and coloring: a painting without any detail! There's no place like home! I found the board this is painted on in a drawer, it had some sort of scraped off painting in blues on it, so I just went over it again with blues and made it into this scene.
Raymond Chandler wrote: “I guess maybe there are two types of writers, writers who write stories and writers who write writing.” (He was a writer of writing.) I think the same can be said for painters: painters who paint pictures and painters who paint paintings. I want to be a painter who paints paintings.
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Ha! Nothin' but my favorite color from one end to the other! I like this lots!
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Blue seems to be the one color I can get away using like this... I tried one in golds browns and one in whites and greys and they did not quite work out as well (they're posted on my blog).
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Amazing! What I find so great about this style is, that it invites the viewer to use his/her imagination. Every viewer will be able to see their own story in it.
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Exactly, why should we artists have to do all the heavy lifting here? However, this is not a popular style of painting. Most people want something to look like something, the more realistically the better. And they value hard work: if it looks too easy, it is too easy. (This was "easy" and fun, but then I've been doing this stuff for half a century.) Genius doesn't buy you a cup of coffee. Still, everyone is entitled to decide for themselves what they like and don't like, so if I paint stuff I know people will not like, I've only myself to blame. However, I don't paint to sell, but to have fun, so I can paint pictures I like -- like this one -- without a worry in the world.
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