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Full title: "The Wanderer; Harbinger of Doom".Oil on canvas. 16"x20".
This was a painting that I was working on when I was going through chemo and radiation for throat cancer back in 2003. I started on it spontaneouly and sometimes the problem with that is, you will notice that it also looks good when viewed after being turned differently and upside down. I worked on it from different angles. That happens often when painting spontaneous organic imagery. Plus, I wasn't feeling well, so my concentration was off.
I had to leave it alone and went on to another painting.
A few years had past and in the meantime, my cancer was gone but then my dad contracted cancer, received treatment, appeared to get better but it came back a year and a half later and he died.
I had pretty much forgotten about the painting but found it in the corner and decided to get back to it eventually. I noticed that looking at it one way, it sort of looked like some kind of creepy figure. I reworked it a little and added the background.
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Thank you. Plus I didn't have a lot of energy at the time to paint a larger more detailed painting.
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Makes sense from a physical perspective.
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This was one of my more experimental paintings.
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I definetley love this! It gives me an unsettleing pain in the pit of my stomache.(but not in a bad way) I see Tetsuo!
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Thanks. It's meant to be a bit unsettling.
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I'm so glad you like this. It was somewhat experimental. Thank you.
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Thank you so much! It sells for $200 but if you definitely want it and you have PayPal I'll let you have it for $150. I'll pay for shipping.
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Thank you. This was one of my more experimental paintings.
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Well it turned out very well!
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Do you have any idea how great this is? Great choice of colours, and a beautiful title.
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Thanks. When I paint spontaneous organic forms they often come to unintentionally resemble some kind of creature or figure of some kind when you look at them a certain way. I look at them from different angles, including upside down.
In this painting, the mass of organic forms seemed to form a being of some kind that seems to be wandering from right to left. 'He' or 'it' also appears to be a bit tortured looking and/or slightly menacing (especially if you are stoned when you look at it). Hence the full title: "The Wanderer; Harbinger of Doom".
Another reason I called it that was because I painted it a year after I recovered from cancer treatment while shortly afterwards my father contracted cancer and died.
I've always been rather ambivalent towards this painting.
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Suzh a touching story behind it.
I can see the painting really has a lot of meaning behind it.
I also do abstract and ask my friends what they see in a particular drawing, its good to receive different oppinions.
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Nice work, i really like the build up of forms and lovely contrasts in colours! It's got a nice radiance about it, Great Job!
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Thank you. It was rather experimental. I spontaneously painted organic forms with randomly picked colors. Later on I looked at the canvas from different angles and switched it from a vertical to horizontal direction (I've done this before). Then I added the landscape with ruins at the end.
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Wow! I think I'm in love with this piece of work. It's just ...breathtaking, seriously. Colors are wonderful. The way you expressed your emotion is unique.
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Thank you. It's good to receive positive responses to a painting that I myself was unsure about.
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Gorgeous work! I'm impressed you were able to channel the emotions from such a difficult time into a concerted effort to make something like this.
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Thank you. It was a welcome distraction in a way.
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Wow i really like your work, im verry inpressed!!
if i look to the painting it remembers me a dream i had a night!
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Thank you. I like the idea that I might be inadvertently painting someone else's dreams.
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well art is a understanding and every one understands it in a other way.
thats my opinion ^^ thats why some people dont like art, they just cant understand it ^^
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Very very beautiful! I like paintings that have a history to them
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WOW!!! You have such a wild and amazing imagination! I LOVE THIS!!!
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i really like your contrast of bright colors with darks that arent quite black. your brain sees some really interesting textures! this is some nice work!
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