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Gouache and Drawing Ink 30" x 40" 2006Related content
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You know you've more than achieved your goal when a highly personal piece conveys a universality as well. All the elements draw the viewer in, and lead them to want to know more. The girl is lovely, the background impeccable... and darn-it, who doesn't love a miniature elephant?
Maya con dios!
BTW bro, thanks for the Asobi Seksu alert
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Now give Rainer Maria a try!
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Hell! How long does it take you to come up with this stuff, man!! How long does it take you to do a piece?!
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You know, this one was funny-- there was all this brand new stuff in my head when I got home from Russia, and this came pouring out-- but suddenly it just ceased to pour, and I went on to other things, knowing in the back of my mind I'd come back to it-- but that was years ago, and the time to get back to it didn't come until a little over a month ago... So I started this thing some time in '98, and didn't finish until a few days ago...
I've got worse stories, John; but I've never been as happy to finish anything in my life... And, in time for her Birthday, on the 31st of August...
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I know what you mean Brother Sam, like the reality in your head is beating too fast and turning serpentine figure eights inside the primordial stuff that birth ideas, then there is the reality of the naked canvas leering back at you like the reflection from some painted over mirror, mocking you. Now, how do you focus on the thing that's trying to beat its way free of your head, like a viceroy beating its way free of a cocoon. You want to help it break free. And instead it dies- it fades back into the primordial ebb and flow for some other cosmic event to bring it forth.
I filled up three journals while I was in France and Italy, and when I came home -I started a band. Go figure
I've been working on the same book since 2000 and I'm about to redo it for what I hope is the last time. I feel like if I can get it right, the nine books that follow will automatically be in place. My delusion. God, I can't wait until I can finish it.
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You know, another problem is that, sometimes obscene amounts of time are required-- I was ready to have this idea all those years ago, but I wasn't able to paint it then like I can now-- I look at other things of mine from a long time ago that I WAS able to paint, and just admire the shit out of them now... I dunno. I do know that, at one point, this one wasn't solveable; I looked at it again a month ago and saw that it was. I remain ignorant as to what all this might mean...
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Like Solomon said, "there's a time for every purpose under heavenl". (...A time to paint, and a time to stand back and watch what was painted) Sometimes you need to step back from the situation.
Or time has to pass in order for your perceptions to change. 
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Was that Solomon? I always thought that was Roger McGuinn...
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The Byrds made it famous, but it was a copyright infringement on the Preacher
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(I've got an Oscar Wilde quote in my journal that I'd assumed, right up until a month ago, that Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders had authored in "Message Of Love"; my education came straight from FM radio...)
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I'm so there with you. God, can you beleive she was married to Jim Kerr?
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Bet when she left he sang, "Don't you forget about me"
When you walk on by, will you call my name?
...Or will you walk away?!
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I'll tell ya something, though-- I've got the limited edition translucent gold vinyl of New Gold Dream, and that album, all by itself, testifies that Simple Minds could have been a really great band... Promised You A Miracle is still afloat in my bloodstream...
But Chrissie's never been given her actual due; for my money, she the all time GREAT female rock star.
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So right. Woman could belt out a song that gave you chills up and down your spine. She was the Yang to Kerr's Yin, if you ask me.
And New Gold Dreams was in deed the best work Simple Minds ever did. That and Sparkle in the Rain. I'd play the "albums" until I couldn't stand it anymore, clean my palette with some Depeche Mode, Visage, SPK, Umo Vogue (just my love was da 
I still have their best of album. Reminds me; need to finish replacing my collection.
C Moon Cry Like A Baby and Catwalk -music to draw to. New Gold dreams, music to read, write ands draw to.
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The colors vibrate right off of the page, down to the subtle greens of the elephant playing against the red in her shirt. The Elephant represents good fortune in the far and Middle East. Showing someone the bottom of your feet is an insult -a curse- in the east. The molten water and the glowing sun are both life giving, as testified by the fruit baring trees in the background.
And oddly, the sun on the floor and the candle flickering discretely in the background, the light seems to glow from within the model. The way you handled the tones in the skin make her seem incandescent; radiant.
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And she is, too, my brother; one of those strange little stars we sometimes get to come across...
Thanks, as always, for your depth of vision...
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Funny, isn't it?
Out of all the stars in the sky tonight, not one shines as brilliant as the stars among us.
They too shimmer in the dark places. Born of the same misery and pain and shame as us all, yet they shine so beatifically, you wouldn't know the struggle to look. You can only sit there in awe, dazzled by them.
Thatβs what I want my art to be about. Revealing that light. Not just the fight, not just the beauty of a pretty face or a sexy body. I want to capture that soul beauty.
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You've got the prerequisite skills; now go, Johnny, go!
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Wonderful work Sam! This immediately reminds me of the universal don't you dare try to tickle me pose. She's so playful, but the environment has a very heavy feeling to it.
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Nicely decoded, my friend; Ani was born in Iran and had as difficult a childhood as you can imagine; she grew up around the world, and she was my most vital guide in Russia, especially when it came to matters of history-- so this joyful and happy pose she leapt into when a camera happened to find her at the right moment; CATHEXIS!
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A whole range of warm colors here with the cool blue in the playful pose for the eyes to rest on
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Thank you, darlin!
Gouache is as smooth as eggnog, and the colors are so pure-- at one point, I thought I could give them up for oils, but now I know: I'm hooked for life...
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very warm and has a mysterious side i can't explain, but you could feel the emotion by looking at this piece...beautiful, dear Uncle!
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Thank you, darling Niece!
She was born in the year of the Snake, so warm and mysterious are both right on the money...
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WOW! 
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Thanks, Joy! This is a piece I wanted to paint as soon as I got back from Russia; I ended up abandoning it years ago; picked it up again about a month ago and finally finished. 
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If I finished a monumental piece like that, I'd feel like celebrating, too.
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I want to steal the mini-elephant. It's so CUTE!!!
Beautiful range of reds, oranges and yellows in here, and the blue jeans add the contrast that makes this stand out in my mind.
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Thank you, sweetie!
This is the second time I've tried to do bluejeans justice (the other was with a painting called Hanein); the damned things are incredibly complicated, and just as distinctive as their owners...
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This is true. It's a girl's general saying that "Yeah, I have 6 pairs of jeans....but these are the ones that make my butt look nice!!!"
I think everyone has their own favourite style/colour/length/etc...
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It's true, and it's gotta be one of the few things new to the human experience-- what on earth did people do before they had bluejeans...?
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I think that was back in the days of Edwardian suits, corsets and those huge skirts......
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Check out the high button shoes on that one-- nice!!!
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I can only imagine what it would ahve been like back then...
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I just know what I see in the movies-- those people still look really cool; Bogart, Hepburn & Tracy-- where people from the early 70s tend to look completely ridiculous... Maybe I should re-think this whole bluejeans thing...
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The main thing about bluejeans that make them so popular is the comfort thing. I know that I've never found aything quite as comfortable as a well-fitting pair of jeans.
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I got sick of them for awhile, because they were all I ever wore as a teenager-- then I bought some old man blue jeans a few years back, didn't like them, and recently went running back into 501s, haven't left them since...
Something about the comfort, but it's that variation in the color as well; they fade into such personal patterns, you know?
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You're telling me. I lent a pair of jeans to a friend once....she had them for about a month and when I got them back, they were all worn around the knees (girls jeans don't normally fade at the knees first).
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It's true. All my jeans fade in the rear before they fade at the knees......it's only on guys jeans that I really see the faded knees.....
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You're a very fine detective, you...
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Oh yes.....I have always been able to solve the mysteries of the mysterious happenings to my clothes and belongings. I'm like a modern day Sherlock Holmes......except female and not quite as crazily smart....
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I was more thinking crazy without the same amount of mystery-solving smartness.......but whichever works.
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Exquisite colors and majestic stylization. I'm impressed with sheer amount of detailing. Lush lighting and fabulous pose. Great anatomy and fine expression. Subtle and dazzling imagery. Masterful composition as always.
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Thanks so much, Tiamat! She has one of those faces that carries so much emotion; she's a lot of fun to pay attention to...
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