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Published: 2005-04-24 11:54:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 5150; Favourites: 106; Downloads: 1095
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My love affair with Karen in art was put on hold briefly, when Mel, who is a work mate of hers saw the portrait I'd done and offered me money to paint her instead, which I obviously excepted.This work is intended as a CD cover and promotional poster, as well as a work of art, for Mel who is a jazz singer song writer.
I've again used quite hard light, in this case the idea of a spotlight, out of which the somewhat introspective singer has briefly turned. The harsh light, showing some flaws, is sybolic of the publics often low tolerence to an artists original work, but it still catches the edge of one eye, suggesting that the lure of the stage has not left her just yet.
Again I've tried to show a strong woman, and in doing this I haven't exactly flattered her in the traditional sense, but it does give the immpression that when she turns back to face the crowd, she will be up to it.
She was extremly pleased with the result, going so far as to call me a genius, which I thought was a bit strong.....hehe. Still it must be one of my better attempts.
Edit: Woot! DD!
hazzar! I'm surprized but happy with the choice. 
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Comments: 212
Very deep and thoughtful work. Beautiful and realistic work.
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i love that pic...she have a character in her expression, and she is looking sexy ... and i dont know why! [maybe thats how you sow her! ]
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thanks.. I never got a great photo of that painting, was actaully far nicer in real life
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yes, i can understand it david.
many of my paintings i took with the camera, but forgot to zoom...
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ahhh yeah
stupid camera's
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Excellent - great skin tones and shape throughout.
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I like this too; your style painting brings to mind Lucian Freud.
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well thank you
I just need to push my prices up to match him now
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The back lighting on this is fantastic!! Wonderful job indeed.
Peace,
AL
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thank you, it was a big step foward for me at the time
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great work! you spelled "accepted" wrong, tho. truly great painting.
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I'm not famous for my spelling I'm afraid, or my typing...once I combine the 2 its all over...Well noted however I shall fix it shortly
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I saw the title and my heart jumped...my name is Melanie
This is so excellent! You ARE a genius! ^^
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holy mary-mother-of-jesus!
I thought that was a sickly photo.
magnificent!
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I would add it to my faves. but that area is reserved for nude art so I can censor bypass in the school library.
yeah, rebel without a pulse.
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I assume you checked out my many nudes?
sorry I have no idea is you :fav: anything, with the dd I had like 500 new messages in 24 hours
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Thank you. I was pretty excited about it...all over now though, back to the backblocks..my 15 mins are over...
hehehe
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Your welcome.... hopefully there will be a sequel
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I'm really happy to see an image of an older woman featured in a DD - it's a refreshing change from normal. From the thumbnail, I thought this was a photograph, but was tickled pink when I saw that it's a painting. Very good work.
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I was just on your page reading the journal about copyright...that's really kinda harsh stuff. I should possible take more care to mark my works is that is the way things are going I guess....eeek
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This is awesome! I love it..it's so well done, and I love it..because it's not perfect. No human is perfect, yet people tend to paint/draw/CG them without any flaws whatsoever (I'm guilty of the same thing). And it's refreshing to look at a painting of a person with wrinkles... And it's refreshing to look at a painting of a person who's not undering flattering lighting.
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Yeah it was a big call for me to go in that direction (trust me I'm totally capable of doing flawless looking work as well) espiecally for a comission. Luckly Mel herself has a good eye for art and a strong enough ego to see it wasn't an insult, but more of a sympathic insite. Or something. She liked it anyways
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it's different, and I prefer looking at non-flawless stuff once in a while
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did you paint this form life or did you use a photograph?
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From a photo sadly, Mel lives on the otherside of the country now, I was only in town for a few days, so there was no time
Took some photos and ran
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aw...well im sure she loves the painting of her
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she does
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Stunning. I absolutely adore the thought that you put into this, which is more than evident in the description. Thought is a dying art. Props.
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Painting is all in the mind if you ask me.
I have to plan everything pretty carefully when working, mostly because I'm not actaully as good as it might seem I am (only been doing visual art for 2 years now, and that painted nearly 1 year ago), so I have to know what I'm going to do, or it can all go wrong.
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You actually pianted that...? Holy cripes! You're like, the next Norman Rockwell! Lol.
10/10
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10/10? woot! I'm happy with that
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Nice work with the shadows. I can't see what you saw, obviously, so I don't know how to evaluate the ridges of the vertical bones at the base of her neck, and the horizontals, especially on the viewer's left. Perhaps she runs to thinness, and too, the harsh light might have made her features appear more "pointed" than they normally would.
I'm trying to reach here for comments that would possibly help. Your work is intended to be somewhat impressionistic, as the hair readily shows. Given that, I'd have to say this is a pretty good painting. It's unfortunate that the top of her head is cut off, but I'm sure you have/had your reasons for constructing the picture that way.
I don't see a lot of painting here (more interested in photography), but this one caught my eye right away. The colors work well together...but as I said as the beginning, it's the shadow work that really imparts quality to the entire ensemble. Congratulations.
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I think its the hard light more then anything giving those effects. The overall composition had to be the right shape to be a Cd cover, with a logo and title down one side, which accounts for the shape, and is why I croped the head that way, also it had to be an image that was striking at cd cover size, so more of a close up then I usually go towards. I float between fairly expressive painting, and far tighter realism, depending on my mood mostly, this is on the more more realist end of my scale, but as you noted still some impressionist stuff there, can't quite bring myself to go to extreme realism, I feel a painting needs to look like a painting, not a photo.
Thanks for the feedback, been trying to get to reply, had a mountian of comments with the DD, as you do I guess.
Have fun
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Damned good, regardless of whether you think you're a genius or not.
Usually I don't look at featured deviations because to me it's a bit unfair, that whole feature system, but yours was just too beautiful to ignore. It has a raw feeling to it. I like it a lot. I love it.
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Thank you. Feeling is the main game for me with paintings, allways happy if it comes through to someone else
I do know what you mean about the feature system, however I personally am at a loss as to what else they could do? The top favs would just get further and further away from everyone else, which is allready happening anyways...
Sadly the whole art world is a bit of a flawed system. I get sick of going ot the markets and seeing people seeing crap that they paint 3 in day for more then I get for my work, and selling 5 times as much, but I can survive so I guess I should shut up
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Regardless of how well you survive, an artist of your caliber should be able to say anything (s)he wishes, don't you think? There are so few of you.
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well, thank you for saying so...I think the problem is often the more you put into art, the less time you have to learn to sell it. I need some fast talking human somewhere in my camp to do that for me I think. Don't have any lying around do you?
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