Looks awesome. I'd love to see atleast one detail shot of it. I like the colors. Makes me think of a misty early August morning and the sun will burst through in about ten minutes and I am looking at the boat from the shore drinking a cup of coffee that I got at the gas station and pissed that it's getting cold and wondering why in the hell I screwed my life up so much. I think about swimming out to the boat but don't because that's the story of my life. So, yeah, I love the painting.
I don't know... I didn't feel much while painting this. I was sick, I knew it had to be done, and I was too lazy to put any amount of effort into a detailed background.
That being said, when I get rich and famous, and art history students are sitting around discussing the hidden meaning behind this painting, they'll likely deduce that I feel lonely and isolated in my monochromatic world, only anchored by a small line hidden underneath an unpredictable blanket of potential disaster.
That's EXACTLY what those art snobs would say. They're always looking for something that they can call "meaning." "Oooh, look at that little color there - THAT color symbolizes futility." No, it doesn't - the artist got a booger on the canvas so she painted it over it with the only color of paint that she had left! I'm glad that I know how to paint otherwise I'd just be another art snob injecting meaning into the meaningless.
i'm impressed, that's for sure. i would think, for the next one, you'd want to move in, show the human element of it... i have a book with a lot of b&w photos from on-deck and in the rigging, unfortunately from larger merchant vessels (alan villiers, "the sea in ships", clever title, eh?) which if you like, i could find some free time and scan for you. that's a keeper, too, i don't know what you're talking about a warm-up.
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Did you disappear on me?
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I didn't disappear on you! I called and left you a message last week - Sunday, maybe? It's been a long time though...
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Get painting!
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I don't know... I didn't feel much while painting this. I was sick, I knew it had to be done, and I was too lazy to put any amount of effort into a detailed background.
That being said, when I get rich and famous, and art history students are sitting around discussing the hidden meaning behind this painting, they'll likely deduce that I feel lonely and isolated in my monochromatic world, only anchored by a small line hidden underneath an unpredictable blanket of potential disaster.
That, of course, is not the case...
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which if you like, i could find some free time and scan for you.
that's a keeper, too, i don't know what you're talking about a warm-up.
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i accept the challenge.
you just wait...
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