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virtuosoale
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[2012-01-11 19:38:17 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1232; Deviations: 106; Watchers: 69
Watching: 141; Pageviews: 8238; Comments Made: 272; Friends: 141
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Van GoghFavorite movies: Being There
Favorite TV shows: The Big Bang
Favorite bands / musical artists: Too many to list. Some: Mumford & Sons, Citizen Cope, World Party
Favorite books: The Stand
Favorite writers: Don't have one
Favorite games: Used to be Legend of Zelda
Favorite gaming platform: None
Tools of the Trade: Pastels
Other Interests: Hiking, backpacking, running.
# About me
I am an accounting professional with a pastel painting hobby, avid hiker, frequent backpacker, and taking ongoing pastel workshops. I paint with soft pastels.I am beginning to think painting has become as much a part of my backpacking as nature itself. I take pictures on my treks, and then when I return, and after a while, I paint the ones I think capture the feeling I had when I took them.
To me, painting must convey an emotion, an experience...it needs to make the viewer feel as the artist. If I don't look at my painting and think, "Yes, this is what I felt like when I took this picture," then I have failed, although the viewer may love it.
Someday, I would like to paint and have the viewer say, "Yes...I feel as the artist must have when she took this picture."
# Comments
Comments: 166
Hi Jackie
This is George van Vuuren (Artist)
Thank you for adding my Artwork (Valentina & Cara Mia) to your favourites list. Truly Appreciate.
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Hi George! Your portraits and figure are lovely (colorful too!).
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Фантастично! Потпуно исправна ћирилица!
I am touched! Absolutely correct use of Cyrillic letters!
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Our languages are not based on Latin and it is hard to pass the threshold. But I think that is much easy to us- higher education is connected with Latin terminology! If You try to learn any of our languages, You have to start about zero points. On the other side, I can understand Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, very well.
Is that church Greek- Catholic or Orthodox church? Just ask, I am not perfect church person...
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Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. I'm not religious, but the art, the incense, and the chanting feels like what a heaven would feel like. So I would go. That's how I became interested in Eastern European language and culture.
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Beautiful! Maybe I am religious in my hart but I consider religion as a politic and a church as a house on earth. And man is in the house and man is more or less... Maybe I am an orthodox fan. As a Serbian, my aesthetic roots are somewhere in fresco painting in Serbian orthodox monasteries. In my gallery, I have a replica of fresco painting White Angel. There is a very harsh connection between art and religion in history. In modern times, one has found a measure, take best of everything...
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Thanks for the 
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Thank you for favouring my Fred Astaire. Appreciated.
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Thanks so much for the faves! I am in awe of your pastel landscapes!
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Hi Jackie, Thanks for adding my effort to your favourites , much appreciated
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Thanks for faving !
The colors of your landscapes give them a great atmosphere !
(At first I thought it was oil paintings. I didn't know pastels could create such effect 😊)
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Thank you so much! Pastels are so versatile.
I LOVE your watercolors and ink! So colorful. I have wanted to try to incorporate ink into my work and your work really makes me want to do it now, lol.
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Thanks for the interest in my work! Yours is lovely.
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Hi Jackie. Thanks for faw and watching..You have some nice paintings in your gallery - will watch back..
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