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paulrichardjames — Rumspringa
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Published: 2007-02-03 17:21:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 13503; Favourites: 157; Downloads: 5124
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Oil painting, on Canvas 30 x 36 inches. Rumspringa is the period when Amish adolescents leave their community to explore the world outside. The image was based on an I Pod add. I like to screw around with meaning.Related content
Comments: 50
Rumspringa isn't a thing anymore XD They don't do it anymore, infact it's almost extinct since the younger generation always have cars and cell phones.
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I first heard the term on a "Bones" crime drama series. Constance "Bones" Brennan, forensic anthropologist, and Sealey Booth,FBI man and former sniper, investigate the murder of a boy on Rumspringa, whose remains were strewn along a railroad track (gruesome murders and grotesque mangling of bodies is a typical opening of any episode.) They have difficulty discussing matters with the boy's parents.
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Love this! So funny but a little more deep than that, too.
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absolutely brilliant. one of the best artistic executions of a feeling i have seen on deviant. brilliant!
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Simply amazing! It makes me miss painting more than you can imagine! Thank you for the great work and inspiration.
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Great concept & execution. I saw a documentary called "Devil's Playground" on the very subject, & was extremely intrigued by the idea of a culture that shapes someone from childhood suddenly giving the children a decision to make, whether to continue tradition or leave the flock.
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Wonderful incongruity! And the expression on her face makes me giggle!
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Well executed humour. Not easy to achieve, but you have. Kudos
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I just love this piece.
I don't know if you know just how perfectly this expresses rumspringa. Especially since the girl is still wearing the old order dress and bonnet which most girls tend to wear even during rumspringa. When I look at her I feel that she is riding the edge of both of her worlds. Coming from a ... familiar background I can really relate and I find it just beautiful.
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Haha thats really cool and really beautifully painted. I don't know if theres a deeper meaning to it but it just looks funny and makes me smile
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i love this painting, it totally makes me smile. makes me very happy-- lovely piece
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Looking back over the comments, I realise I've never bothered to mention just how much I love this piece. I favourited it ages ago, and on random favourites every now and again it comes up on my own userpage... and it always makes me smile. Beautiful concept, beautifully executed.
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Oh, what a nice thing to say. Thanks for putting the link up on your homepage. You are so cool!
Congrats on the upcoming marriage. I have been married 14 years, and I can say that I love my wife more and more every day as well, despite some rough times in the past.
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Thanks. 
And as for the journal feature - well, y'know, I don't have millions of pageviews, but occasionally I like to share something wonderful with the hardcore few who visit me!
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As a new painter I find it difficult to truely capture skintones and facial expressions. I admire your gallery, but this one is by far my favorite of the bunch. Kudos on the DD.
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You can really draw. That is the basis for any figurative work. Nice stuff. As far as colour. I use grayed down orange for the light tones, and burnt umber, grayed down for the shadow. I have a bunch of colour charts that I made, and I take a sample from whatever skin tones I like in paintings. Look for paintings that have the skin tone you want and mix up those skin tones. Don't settle for anything else. If the colour doesn't match what you want- don't settle for the next best colour. Remember, people, at least the caucasian types, are not pink, as we have been led to believe.
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Thanks, your persona is really cool!
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Wow, this is so beautiful! Looks kinda Phil Hale-ish and somewhat "classical". Truly awesome energy n such too, great job man!
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I just checked out Phil Hale. I was not familiar with his work. I guess that it is the chiarascuro style, high contrast. But Phil stole it from Caravaggio, who probably stole it from someone. Everyone is a thief, artists are the best thieves. Glad you like it.
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He has some very cool stuff. That chiarascuro style is really sumthing i like/would like to steal
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my God!
you smashed my brain!
can't find the right words to explain my thougts 'bout this...
whoa...
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"I smashed your brain". That's the best comment yet! Thanks so much. Next, I will smash your heart and twist your spine...Saw II like!
Cheers,
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This is excellent 
I immediately puzzled over the rocking out Amish girl when I opened this, but your description explains the method to the madness. I've always wondered how Amish teenagers react when finally out in the modern world. This piece gives me a little inside view!
Your ability to work with oils still stuns me, but it's really the pose and her expression that stands out here. So emotive and frankly hilarious 
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Oh, that is so nice. I met an Amish guy, who during his teenage years, managed to travel quite far. Even as far as Belize, and the Yucatan, Mexico. There is a large Mennonite population there. I actually just sold this piece through a gallery, but for a ridiculously low price-- $900.00Canadian.
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Wow i love it!!
I invite you to enter The Maiden in Lost Land Contest .
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thanks, your comment put a smile on my face! Nice stuff yourself. The back is quite good!
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thanks, I'm glad that you find it amusing. I find it amusing to see the Amish teenagers with their buggies going as fast as they can, eating a bag of potato chips and wearing sun glasses. Their so cool!
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