Evocative Figure / Landscape - ANY MEDIUM

#121

Jan-Mark,

Yep, up and about. :slight_smile: Hmm, have any more cool artwork to post? :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#122

she is bound by bounds that cannot be broken because the come from inside her and sometimes when you struggel they become even stronger… as you might notice it is a study to the second figure but i think it is more evocative than a study. i only looked at the original a couple of minutes and just painted what was in my mind.

there are really faszinating pieces here :slight_smile: keep posting you all :slight_smile:

#123

Llynna,

Hmm, this is really cool! :slight_smile: I like how you’ve taken the pose and really stretched your imagination with this! :slight_smile: I think you, too, would really like the work of Kathe Kollwitz and other German Expressionist masters. There are a few images of Kollwitz’s posted here. :slight_smile:

The one thing I would caution you about is that the face is starting to remind me of the ‘Cat in the Hat’ by Dr. Seuss. Don’t take this the wrong way, it’s easy to see familiary things in non-objective work. :wink:

Cheers for taking this to a new level! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#124

hm, must take a look at this cat with the hat.

i am quite familiar with Kathe Kollwitz, Horst Janzen and the like. My mother is a really big fan of the german expressionists. but the pictures i had in mind while painting where the ones of the chimera Ensho-hen by Yoshitaka Amano, an artist i really fancy.

http://www.amanosworld.com/

#125

Guuuhd… heheh… I’m working on somehing, I don’t think it’s fiot to post yet though. Interesting work Lynna, a little hard to read for me though, but after taking time it’s pretty intruiging. :slight_smile:

#126

Thanks for comments Rebecca, and I’m sorry to don’t answer before, this latest weekend I was at the weddings of my sister… :smiley:

well… I can reassure you, I’ve some reference and so, my goal was to do something without much details quickly and only suggered with large brushes. :shrug:

mmh mmh… sorry, but it’s finish… and don’t think to go more far with this picture, just to test, nothing more. :slight_smile:

I will see the others post more closely now.

#127

Lemog! He’s back! :bounce:

Hey, no worries…most of the stuff I’ve posted in this thread is also finished, or as far as I am going to take it. :wip:

Ah…so OFDW 003 starts tomorrow…are you in? :thumbsup:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#128

Normally, yes… I will try… perhaps also according to the subject :scream:

Spirit Dreamer -> Your Wise Woman is extraordinary… very strong picture.
Like Debbie, I wonder what it thinks. Much memories or secrets must be hidden in her. Maybe the bird is her conscience, or the conscience of the human race ?

Thanks Debbie, and yes, It’s done with Painter… I work with Oily Bristle Brush, with low opacity.

jlBoekestein -> by looking at this image, we can imagine much things, but the first which comes to mind is not really the hell. It’s certainly due to the black and white used.
This image makes me more thought a little of a female controversy, between the body and the spirit, the suffering and the pleasure, at the border perhaps, of the good and the evil, which would join the first topic. Sucessfull picture in my opinion, because it pushes to think.

Rebecca -> Thanks for all Kathe Kollwitz images… really interesting, strong and significant pictures at the same time, reinforced by the treatment in black & white.

Llynna -> you painted what was in your spirit, this vision appears a little black and torn then, with a body which seems imprisoned, but by what, the life, the men, the sex, the disease, the madness ?
This work is very interesting and pleasant to look at. We questions ourself, of the questions are posed, we imagines answers, and we remains fascinated.

#129

Lemog,

With respect to OFDW 003, if you are unhappy with the current images, I can post a set of 4. My friend Hong has available numerous (hundreds, really) of images which he has made available to me for use in the OFDW threads. Additionally, he has some photos of clothed models, which I think would be challenging to paint. Let me know your thoughts on this ~ I don’t wish for people to get bored, and the OFDW is entirely flexible. :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#130

Hi Samanthie and Lamog
I posted this earlier but part of a message on the other thread…so now putting it here where it belongs…

Lamog: You must be a mind reader…

Wise woman: what she is thinking … The eye furthest from the viewer sees the inquisition where 7 or 8 million wise women were tortured and murdered for the same reasons the Taliban are doing it today. Power Ignorance Fear. The eye closest to the viewer reflects the ancient wisdom passed on since pre history when women were the keepers of the secrets of nature, the healers, the spiritualists, the possessors of the secrets and magic that is life. She symbolizes to me that spirit that was and is being extinguished by the male hierarchy.
This is what she is thinking, I think.
Take care
Glenn

#131

one moment, the hope dies, tears run dry, even fear is lost…

… you become a stranger in your own body, helpless, defensless…

… the moment you break, the last drop of convidence broke in pieces…

… the moment you lose your innocence

#132

Lynna,

WOW!!! The iris and pupil of this piece are amazing! You know, it’s funny, because I am sort of reminded of the poster for ‘The Ring’ by this piece ~ not to be morbid, it’s really a compliment. :wink:

I think that the upper and lower lids and the flesh about the eye could be a bit more rendered ~ but I like that you have kept it relatively unsaturated, as opposed to the nice, though subtle saturation of the iris.

Very nice work, and thank you for posting it! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#133

Hi Rebecca and everyone
The story behind this painting is personal.
When I was in the Navy, the Vietnam War was raging on and on, Nixon was bombing the hell out of Vietnam, and the cold war with the Soviet Union was getting hot. And in the middle of this ordeal I was on the Thomas Jefferson, a Polaris nuclear submarine, carrying 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles. Each equipped with 2 nuclear warheads, each being 50x more destructive than those dropped on Japan in WWII. On my last patrol we went up by the Soviet Union and patrolled 2 miles off thier coast line. Were chased numerous times by their attack submarines and destroyers. But luckily were never caught and destroyed. I opened the missle hatches about 20 times during a 90 day period and went through the sequence or count down to fire the missles on each occasion, not knowing if it was the real deal or not, only the captain knew, Each time I shut the missle hatches back up I counted my lucky stars, cried a little inside and wondered why and how the world ever got so screwed up. My job on the sub was launcher technician which is to fire the missles, destroy continents and essentially all life on the planet. Had my finger on the button to end all of life far too many times. Been a nightmare in my life for 35 years now. This painting is a self portrait of that experience I had many years ago. An experience that haunts me to this day and probably til the day I die.
Used a mirror to paint my own image. Not bad for being 52. Lol.
So, Have a great day. Because you never know if it’s going to be your last.
Take care
Glenn

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#134

Spirit Dreamer,

Wow, this is one of your most powerful and direct images which I’ve seen so far…the message is really apparent, though I appreciate your posting your thoughts about your former experience in the military. I have an uncle who refuses to talk about his Vietnam experiences, but I can’t relate to what it must be like to have such awful ‘power’ in one’s hands…and hope I will never be able to.

I think art is a great form of therapy on many levels, and I think it is not surprising when people talk about art in emotional terms ~ it is, after all, a form of communication with emotion as its primary root, and so it is by all means useful and valid to use art for this purpose. Have you read ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron? I think that you would love her books and writing style. She really has a way of speaking directly to artists, their fears, motivations, blocks, and concerns. The reason I mention her is because I remember her saying something along the lines of using writing for many different purposes, depending on her needs ~ sometimes, she needs to be creative and write screenplays, sometimes, she uses writing in a diaristic way, sometimes she uses writing to express a whole range of emotions, etc. etc. I just found it interesting to see how she made the point that art need not always be a lofty endeavor, but can be used in any number of ways according to the particular artist’s need at that one moment.

EDIT: I’d also like to say that it takes a lot of courage to write something like this, especially in a public forum, and I really commend you for doing so.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Spirit Dreamer. :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#135

Well im finally getting into painting again, and i hope you dont mind me posting here again :wink:
I also posted in speedpaints since it took relatively short amount of time, but i feel it also belong here :smiley:

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Hope you like it… no real story. Just wanted some water with thoose stone pillars sticking out… and then it evolved to being pillars in the water around some fod shrouded island :smiley:

#136

Swoop,

Wow, very nice! Thanks for posting here, this is definitely evocative. :thumbsup:

Did you use any photo~reference, or was it entirely from imagination? Great work! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#137

Thanks :smiley:
Imagination… started out as wanting to reference a photo goro took, but after the initial block in i kinda saw the rough of this instead… so i ditched the jungle colors, and went on this instead :smiley:

#138

Swoop,

No prob! :slight_smile: It’s always cool to know something about the process. Thanks for posting! :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak

#139

life drawing, watercolor on sketchbook.


#140

zhuzhu,

Beautiful work! I love your mixes of lavendars, purples, blues, and light yellows. A very nice feel to this work which is very calm and relaxing. :slight_smile: Thanks for posting this here! :slight_smile:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rebeccak