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Published: 2017-01-30 21:17:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 282; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 6
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12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboardThe game is now how many different paintings I can paint with different subjects and/or techniques before I hit a brick wall. This one is inspired by my troop of house sparrows -- some 30 strong -- who hang out during the winter in a pile of of fallen branches I collect from the yard and pile next to the house. This year I moved the pile to a more sheltered spot close to the bird feeder where we can watch them eat and just hang out. We have hawks around here who lunch on birds lunching at bird feeders, so the close proximity to their branch fortress comes in handy.
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It's an impressive one!!!Beautifully soft and totally different!!!
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Keeping it simple made it fun to paint, and it's a fun way to paint as well -- kind'a like building with legos.
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Beautiful soft effect with stippling like this. It looks great on the screen, the original must be enchanting when squinting a little.
Admire all your work. Thank you for sharing.
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I find that I squint when I'm painting -- and usually view my paintings without my glasses from a distance. It helps a lot.
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I love the impressionistic vibe from this. Great colors!
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I was looking over some of my books on impressionist artists and was reminded of all the ways you can apply paint, so I did this one by dabbing on paint with a stiff brush.Β
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And effect is really vibrant. Good choice of technique.
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Thank you. It is kind of a fun way to paint -- if you are not too concerned about details. I'm not.
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Well, to be honest this one is quite rich in details. All your impressionist works are full of subtle details that makes the whole view visible or just simply a special part of it. What's more important all at a same time (!). And that is why I like your works so much cause they not seem like my works (representing something or not-like in binary 0-1). Your works got something, which brings me the only one conclusion in mind - quantum physics.
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There may be a quantum element in them, in part because I can't "see" anything in my mind -- I have a sort of an impression, which as often as not, is too elusive to actually paint. A lot of times I just look at what's left after I try to paint something, and find an idea in the stains. And, I also have certain patterns that I use over and over again, like the Β "x" Square paintings, that means I don't have to think about them much, I just sort of put paint on the board and see what happens by not trying too hard to do anything. (I'm an old Taoist, and we sort of "go with the flow" -- spontaneity over planning.) Β Part of what I would find hard about your oil pastels is that your are "drawing" rather than "painting" and that takes a much more deliberate effort than what I can do. (I know, I tried pastels & I'm amazed and what you and other pastel artist can do with them.)
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Well this "drawing" is not coming from nowhere. It's not by an accident. I love comic books, continuosly. And back in the days I was very into creating them. But after a while I decided to drop drawing comic books. Especially that my style was actually not quite mine. I was not just impressed. I was imitating.
And I drop creating. For 8-9 years, I guess... Yes, too long.
Now with oil pastels I'm trying to recover some part of those days, discovering my own way this time. Of course with a little help of people like you, who's showing me impressing elements which brings me ideas for my own works. When I look at my present works they seemed to be a little bit naive, even maybe childish. But I think it's good and I'm trying the best I can to not imitate like in the past.
And that's why I probably never be a straight (which has nothing to do with my sexual preferences 
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Bringing something new & your own into the world is what I think art is all about. I wouldn't be painting the way I am if I wanted to paint popular works. Like you, I want to do something that is my own -- and at the moment, something different than what I did in the past. I'm glad you are pursuing you own muse -- and being both critical, but happy with your work as well. That is, I think the key to enjoying art. I have, over the last 20 years, painted 1,500 paintings -- and you see where I'm at. Slow, slow progress.
Back when I was painting in oils, I bought some oil sticks -- sort of a solid oil crayon, but I think those are different than oil pastels. I did a few paintings with them, and used them together with oil paint as well. Β
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Or maybe those oil sticks was oil pastels but simply named diferently.
However thank you for your words. Keeps me feel that I'm on the right track.
Cheers!
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Nice. I have a few of those, as well,Β that I use on some of my more textured pieces.
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