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Mlonio In reply to thomlocke73 [2015-03-13 19:06:38 +0000 UTC]

thanks you make me feel so important! I will blush!

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thomlocke73 In reply to Mlonio [2015-03-13 19:19:03 +0000 UTC]

i cant belive . how much talent there is on this site!! tons of  talent!... young people..  . i am old. i wasted my youth. abad life!  dont you make that mistake!!.. be good"! have a good life!!... best of luck! and keep  working!!!. never stop!!!.. do good in school!--

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Mlonio In reply to thomlocke73 [2015-03-13 19:43:27 +0000 UTC]

I can't imagine you as old and you have a talent, what matters is the age that you think you have! Your skills aren't wasted! thank you so much for supporting me!

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thomlocke73 In reply to Mlonio [2015-03-13 21:36:36 +0000 UTC]

thank  you  niña= .. gracias.. not as talented as you.. you are working from the classical form, (human. figure,) and that is the golden rule!.  very lucky.. great start!.. my   drawing,   is  pretty crazy.  but i did a lot of  painting in the 80s.. and stoped.. but nothing like  working from out side,  from external reality..  a kind of  subconciouss, flow..-- golden paint company. is in my   region.. my mentor , was juan cruz, a  great artist, he worked with crazy kids.  we did murals,, juan  was frinds with,  scott bennett, in syracuse,  one of the owners, of golden paint company.. scott bennett,  is a great painter in the 80s...  there was a lot of abstract expressionism in syracuse. in the 80s..CLEMENT GREENBURG,  the art critic , championed scott bennett and others,    at delavan art center,  in syracuse,  its  a   large      factory space,  with lots of artist studios,  mostly  university people, from  syracuse university.. i was around the university, alot!.  but never a  student,,  but i    sat in,  and attended, many many,  events and lectures.. and met many famous artist, and saw many slide shows...  roger mack,  was the head dean. fo the art school,    comstock art facilty , in the 80s,  was a   very     prestigeous,  great school, many europeans  came there to study, with roger mack... i knew mr mack, he was  really,a good  kind person..    and thats how i know about plaster casting.. one of his  advanced students,  who also is dead,        kind of ,  showed me some plaster gauze sculptures,, and suggested that i try  it..  i never did..    not till just a few years ago,, and now i am really.  regretting it... scott, like many people,, thought that i was getting ill., and sick from art.., i had a very large body of paintings..  hundreds..  4x5 feet, some 6x8  feet.    i had some exhibitts, in  a local art community  gallery.. even showed.  with some  very    established, painters..   all proffosors   now..   facilty invitaional shows..  a gallery that i have been in touch with, in new york city,  fountain gallery..=  hi hihi.. i am not ashamed of it..- lucky they emailed me. hi hi.. jason the director,  is very kind it seems... in my city,    there was some    surport and  grants,  for    artist in the system,..   most of the people i know,  have   collectors, and have had museuem shows, and in musuem collections.. mr james harithas,  the oldest art director,   of a msueuem,  in the usa,    liked my work, and looks at it. sent me a great  letter,.,  but he likes crazy art,.,.  hi hi hi,, he  was at the houston museuem,  now he  is at the station museuem.,  he  has championed many many artist.  liek yoko ono,. and   norman blhum, and other old artist from the abstract expressionist era...  any way.  he just told   me to keep at it, , so ,, but it was nice of him,, i ahve a couple of itilian  people that look at my work.. they own resurants.  really good people... well any way, i am very tired,. and have to rest, and i am not on the net much..   its expensive for me,  i use the cafe,s.. i pay by the min....   you defintly have a great grounding!  workingout side of your mind!!  that is really important!. .. dont be crazy!....   have a great furture.  i will look  and see your  work, later.... tom, ps,   new york state is one of the best states in the usa.  for art!!.. upstate ny is really great also,  .. new york city is , so so expensive.. you can have a big loft studio, in syracuse or buffalo,  or albany.  that you could not possibly afford in new york city.... i lived in armory square for years.. and   also was at delavan center,--.  some great paint companys, were up state,,, wood stock ny,  also..  but of course this is all modern art.. youlive amoung the greatest  art !!!  very lucky.-..  musuems!! read!!! read Read!! vistit  all of your   treasure sites,, and musuems,  and be a good student....if you can!!----- good luck!!.-.-.

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Mlonio In reply to thomlocke73 [2015-03-15 12:46:47 +0000 UTC]

thanks a lot for the compliments! I really like Usa even if i never been there... i would love to visit America because of art and for the complete diffeent life stile that you have! I want to visit all the states and see were are made all my favorites movies! I would like to see some of your paintings!

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thomlocke73 In reply to Mlonio [2015-03-15 16:37:29 +0000 UTC]

mlonio,  when i get back to new york state, i will  have some  images of my old painting., on slides, have to have them digitlized?.. some   of them are ok,  some like   the cardbaord and pastel..-- on pinterest, social  media site,  i am pinning,  up´   a super duper collection of   the art, and artist    that  effected,  my region, and that are great,.,. imention jackson pollock,  as my fav,  visual artist,  in my interst.,,. but in reality.,.,  scott bennett,   of syracuse ny,, and   robert thurmer,  of cleveland, ohio,,, and roger mack,    head dean of art at syracuse university,,  and juan cruz , charlie buell,,, and jack white, .are my fav.. artist,,, some times the artist around you, and that  you can have access  to are the best artist,,. i am a little imature..  hi hi hi.. your right,  i am  middle age now,  but in my mind i am still  16 year old crazy kid....CALIFORNIA, i  really do not like!!!.. and a lot of the actors.,,  they   dont have any, integrity, or shame,.,,  guns guns guns.  thats alli see,    on the televison... stupid silly guns.. look at all the   gun violence in the usa..   its really crazy and out of control.!!   school shootings,, imagine that,, i was pretty crazy in school,    but  i just  cant imagine wanting to  do  that,,,.  too much violence,  in    the movies... there are  some   good sci fi,   movies,, and some other movies,  i do go to the movies,,,  but   somtimes  its silly,,,, tom cruise,  is from my home town.. he is a moron!.  with all that gun   violence,,  on movie posters,  with   guns, in hand... shamfull...  he went to syracuse university,,,   i use to  visit balck box,  theater,      free student theater,, really high qulaity,  theater in syracuse,,  proffosinal and   student,,, off broadway, theater,,, i tried to     do as much as i could...      balck box theater,  was  experimental,  free, student theater,, i never missed,  a show for many years.,.... i had a friend in the opera, company,, i  did   see some opera, also,, and       lots of  free opera,  at the musuem... on wensdays,  and   other  professional musical,  events,,.   i pluged into my musuem, and  university,,,,,  syracuse,    ny    has the oldest,  art  museum collection,  in the usa!.... and the museuem is a very famous,   building.,..   google, syracuse ny,  everson museum,, and  click on  images.......  the united states,  will seem primitive,    and crude, to you!!.....  your citys,  are pretty mazing in europe,,, modern,, ultra modern transit  systems,,,    wonderfull,  for the people... in the usa,, the transitit, system is  just,  shamfull.... are  grid system is   100 years behind  europe.,,,,,  we are,  brain washed, into buying cars,  and being slaves   to cars, and oil, and gas,,, and  captilism,  that is very cold!..  very little  ,    social  type, spending... in europe,  people are very proud, of ther transit, system, and being able to travle, very   comfortable,  and    with dignity...  its much more modern in europe,  people, are more,   soical, society,    caring,  i think...  a  blend of,  socialism, and captilism,,  not just strait captilsm, like in the usa... we   spend most  of out  wealth,  on war machine,, and  other  things,  that  dont come back to the people.,,., we   pay dearly,!!  dearly.  to just visit a denist,,   ort a doctor,  and if you  dont have insurance,,    its pretty tough!.... presdident obama,  tried  to     get some type of social medicine,  god bless him!...  but it  seems to many, old style people  stand in his way, and   block him and  make difficulty,,,.   look at how corrupt bush was,  he was not even fairly elected.. this was al manufactured,  the war,    all of it...  we really are inslaved.  to oil, and big companys,, and look at how the psychopaths, of banking,,    really,   took the people for a ride...... we are defintly in some type,  of great upheavel,  change.,...  like future shock,, from alvin toffler,,,,..  economically art, is   not  a  good thing to do.  if you want the fine things in life!... read thomas houseago..a new great , power in sculpture,, a new american sucess story,,  came to america with 300  hundred dollars..  in pocket,, he was in ruins... left europe...  now he is big time!... he became a american citizen.... lots of good articles,  on line, about   him and what he thinks.  very acurate,  his  description,  i think... a very very togh,      road.,... SOME TYPE  OF PROFFOSINAL, art,  job,, liek research,  or   curator director,   or  education... teaching.,.,  that is probally the only way... or    make lots o f money at somthing else, and retire,, or do both,?...--- its too bad.... i think that the goverments  shoudl do   much more for art!!! and they dont,.  not as much as they use to... ronold regan,  was a real moron!..   , more brain washing...  the people have no idea now... .....

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