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Published: 2005-01-16 20:09:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 2334; Favourites: 67; Downloads: 309
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Newsprint, tissue paper, white-out, marker and acrylic on wood. 2' x 2'DETAIL OF THE LION: [link]
It's an antiwar statement, actually, but you may have already picked up on that.
EDIT: Newer, better image to make up for previous bad image photo. More on this below -->
Read About My Pain:
Fortiunately, my new digicam makes really nice images. Unfortunately, when time came to take a better new photo of this piece, I'd already fixed the paper+acrylics with shiny lacquer, which of course EXISTS SOLELY TO REFLECT LIGHT OFF OF EVERYTHING. So I had that to deal with in photoshop. In addition, in my infinite genius I used a nonpermanent black marker to outline parts of the white swirls, I needed a finer point and though Hey, What Could Go Wrong? So of course the fixer spray made the marker lines run like wild horses, which isn't actually a bad effect, since it contributes to the general depth of the painting, it's just... an unexpected one.
Man, art sure is awesome.
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Comments: 35
This is so beautiful and interesting to look at. I love the bright colors, which really make the swirls pop. I didn't even notice the lion in the thumbnail, but it makes for a nice surprise on closer inspection.
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I love the paint splatters in the background.
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oh my god.. i love the swirls with my life and soul. and heart.
and a marvelous message.
this is amazing. way to be awesome.
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that's pretty. two things:
1. I think I'm not sure if I understand your pic comment, but.. that's a photo??
2. what's the real size of it?
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The actual piece is a painting. To get it on the screen I had to photograph it. The size of the picture is 2 feet by 2 feet square,
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kaaaaay, I know the size. I only don't understand inches, nevermind.
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Yeahhh, lokks better now, hehehe, more girly too.
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hah. girly?! wheres there a girl?!
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Hmm...my comment didn't go through yesterday.
Well, here it is again, to the best of my memory:
I like the colors on this, even if they aren't the same as on the original, and the little bits of newspaper add nice touches here and there.
But what'd you use the tissue paper on? I can't figure it out.
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The tissue paper is layered under the paint. You can see it by the squares of changing aqua color in the upper left, and by the uneven, oil-paint quality of the solid paint elsewhere. It's just a fun way to create background textures. The next piece I'm working on shows all this a lot more clearly.
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Ooh...fancy.
You're working smart.
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Beautifully crafted and colourful piece. I dig it.
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Ah thank you very much!
I'm sort of itching to re-upload a version that doesn't look quite as orange, however. Because every artist must be at least moderately obsessive-compulsive.
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sweeeeeeet. yeah, I can see what you're saying on the colors, but since I haven't seen it non-digital, it still looks good
!!R
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I don't think the picture/quality/colors look bad at all, but I know what you mean when what appears on the screen just doesn't do the real life object justice. Blah. But, since I haven't seen the original, this one still gets an A+! I like it very much. Very whimiscal and fun.
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Oh, thanks so much! Yeah, the most common problem with real-to-digital conversion is that our eyes see many more colors that can be represented by a computer's RGB spectrum. This is especially true of greens, so whenever I try to photograph something that contains lime+aqua+forest greens, everything just mashes into a sort of boring, swampy consistency that's hard to fix.
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Hurrah, I was certainly going for the crazy angle, the lion has some fun detail on him that doesn't show in the photo:
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Oh, thanks, at least the pinks+reds came out all right.
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