HOME | DD
SRaffa — Danse
Published: 2004-08-31 21:45:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 1700; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 58
Redirect to original
Description
15"x20" Gouache and Drawing Ink 1991Related content
Comments: 46
wow, such a beautiful work. Gouache and Inks are hard, and it's such an amazing masterpiece
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I was just checking [link] and this painting inmediately caught my eye, and I thought -was almost sure in fact- that this looked like something by you, Sam, but I didn't remember having it before. Strange! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks, Diego! Anytime I need to be reminded of the purity of color in gouache, this is one of the paintings I'll take another look at; I'm so glad you like it!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This is great!! I wish I got to paint more...sort of toyed with oils for a while but my stuff ended up looking like painting by numbers!!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Gouache and ink?! No way! Your control of the medium is amazing! 
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks, Jin! I look at this and remember this thing that was going on at the time between Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, back when he was being appointed to the court-- weird, huh? The touchpoints we've got for our memories...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
soft and magical...dreamy. reminds me of a yellow brick road....but bubbles!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
You know, I've been trying to learn oil paints for the past 5 years or so, and there's this one part of it that stymies me-- with my old technique of gouache for the opaques and then drawing ink to glaze with transparencies, I can't figure out how to do that with oil-- none of it's transparent enough! This was a fun painting to work on because I just kept adding buckets of paint to it, and it wouldn't get muddy... One of the big reasons I'll never go 100 percent over to oil.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Um, I took a course in painting, and for glazing with oil paints, we just diluted the paint in linseed oil (as much as we wished) and glazed with that. It worked, but took ages to dry, haha!
I don't know what your gouache technique is so I'm not sure if that method will work for you, but I hope that helped somehow.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Gouache is really easy for me to get along with, Jin; I've been screwing around with oil paint for the last six years, though, and yeah, the drying time is a major point of contention...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Woah! INTENSE!!
The colors are striking and the composition has movement.
This is awesome!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks, Al!
This building is the Colorado Institute of Art, where I went to school, and the girl's pose belongs to the famous dancer, Katherine Graham...
But this is what I like about combining gouache with drawing inks-- the colors just get CRAZY!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
refer to previous comment. purple and yellow green=my favorite compliments.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you sweetie; I just recently hauled this one out of Scraps because I finally got a good scan of it... I'm moving it on to my front page TONIGHT!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
very brilliant the use of colors is outstanding and love the shading on this one very much
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Frolix 8 sent my your way, and I'm glad that he did. I've partially toured your gallery before, based on the favorites he selected, but truthfully, felt too intimidated to comment. Not an artist myself, sometimes I feel unqualified to offer critiques or comments - all I can do is offer up the emotions or images anyone's work evokes in me.
Your work, in total, is so impressive that I shied away offering up what I felt to be inadequate musings. I can tell you that I was struck by this piece especially. It's surrealism lays itself open for a host of different thoughts, some of which are nearly un-voicable. I think, more than anything, I saw it as a commentary on the journey through life, peculiarly envisioned, but a striking metaphor anyway. Dancing to the orchestrations of fate, our bony hail-fellow-well-met glances to the side, perhaps seeing the ministrations of the string puller, but only percieving them as minor, almost inconsequential events that have no real bearing on his journey. Underneath her top hat and evening wear, the true nature of this femme fatale reveals itself; I like to think of her as the second of the three fates, the one who measures the thread of human existance, before her inexorable sister cuts that thread short.
Terrific job anyway, even if my thoughts are miles from your intentions. But to me, that's what good art does - by bringing into my mind thoughts that were not there initially, regardless of the artist's intent. And yours, sir, is good art.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It's a funny thing, how the people who seem the least eager to speak up turn out to have the most substantive things to say; even so, these people are rarely as eloquent as this-- take my word for it, if only for the sake of the artists in question, next time you get the urge to speak, PLEASE DO SO...
I'm very much taken with your interpretation of this little dream in particular and (sincerely) for all I know, yours is the correct translation... I'm often aware of the underlying things I'm trying to get across in a picture, but for the most part, images that persist in my head to the extent that I HAVE to paint them are very similar in nature, I think, to the images that you yourself take in every day but find, at night, only some of them merit presenting themselves to you in the form of a dream... When you wake up, it's fascinating to try and decode their meanings intellectually, and sometimes, they even offer you something that's valuable to learn... My experience with my own paintings is that, if I look at them and they make an emotional kind of sense (that can't always be articulated with words) then I do have a feeling of release, sometimes even an unburdening. One great thing about this Website is that the sheer number of artists here give us all a better percentage chance than, say, at your average gallery in the real world, to find work that nurtures us personally; one of my own favorites, and probably the home of more spiritually nutritious work than any other I've found so far, is the work of J4n3t; if you get a chance be sure to give it all a look; maybe this one in particular [link]
Thank you so much for your insights and for your uncommon ability to articulate them, and thanks for the DevWatch, too; I'm looking forward to reciprocating!
👍: 0 ⏩: 2
Your very welcome. One thing that I always try to get across to the artist I'm commenting on, is that I don't want to pretend as though I'm analyzing the intent as much as trying to express what I've seen.
I'm very glad you appreciated what I had to say. By the way, I've been a huge PKD and Harlan Ellison fan for many years, going back all the way to my teens. Glad to see someone who is putting out homages to them, and suggesting their work to others. And I have to confess that I'm still sort of a fanboy at heart, and knowing someone who actually illustrates for Mr. Ellison is kind of a thrill.
At any rate, keep up the good work, and I'll be looking for more.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
ha, and this is a good example of surrealism, , . I love it.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Gouache is a thick, opaque, water-based paint, very similar to the tempura paints we all used at school as kids... like egg-nog, if egg-nog came in bengal rose and naples yellow (actually, I guess it sorta does come in naples yellow)...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
WOW, this is incredible!! So creative, and the way you use paint is just amazing!! It's so smooth, and so realistic... Great work!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks, Danika; I like your stuff, too. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of your proposed broken-wing fairy series...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you!!! I've got the next broken wing fairy sketched out, I should have it done in the next two weeks. I find I do a lot more drawing during the school year, it gives me something to do between classes
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
In that case, I better keep an eye on you...
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks for the watch!! I'll be sure not to dissapoint
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
LOVE the colors! how do you decide what colors you want to use? do you just... have an image in your head of what you want it to look like? the lime-green/yellow and the color of the woman's dress go together wonderfully.... and then the red skeleton just springs out. red is the opposite of green, isnt it? i dunno... i forget everything i learned in art class.... in the 6th grade...
anyways... gorgeous work once again. to the favs it shall go
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks, B! Sometimes I know what colors things are going to be... wait a minute, though, aren't you the same painter of musical notes who composed purlples, pinks, blues, plus yellow, orange, and green into a diapason called ..And They Just Fell Like Rain...? YES, you are; you know more in your bones about color than I could ever put into words, my friend.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
lol...
that one i kinda knew what i wanted the colors to look like. i just wanted it to have a sunset-ish feel to it... you know those kind of breathtaking sunsets that makes the sky look like a huge canvas.. and somebody just chucked a bunch of red-shades of paint into it? yeah.. thats it.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0