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#281

[i]Here are a few studio pieces
Workshop demos and
a few personal works.

Most are mixed-media on
French’s Speckletone
30" x 40"[/i]

#282

[i]
Here are a few studio pieces
Workshop demos and
a few personal works.

Most are mixed-media on
French’s Speckletone
30" x 40


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#283

Gorgeous works!
When I see your posts, I realize that I have to work more to better …
Thanks for that :D:thumbsup:

#284

amazing work, both in anatomy and designs/style. your thread is very inspiring to me.
thank you.

itay

#285

Hi Doctor, thanks for sharing this with us! Some really strong faces in the last updates; this one is my favorite.

#286

Mr Doc you are awesome. I dont have words for those fishes. And I love the way your transform a gestural attitude to a character. Amazing!

#287

[I]This is part of a
series of large pastels
on acid-free 100lb. Kraft cover

There are several more to
be posted once I photograph them.[/I]

#288

Hey Doc Mic Ment…:smiley:

These are absolutely gorgeous.

There’s so much understanding, even in the slightly alienated anatomy, of the human form in them, and the poses and their interaction is just so enchanting… maybe a bit rather like the three sirens than three graces…

In the first one I love the strong and hot saturated orange spots which indicate the heavy blood supply areas. Also the way the forms kind of dissolve into abstract ideas of them is wonderfully executed.

The interaction between cool and warm hues in the second one is really exciting. So much to read there, like in a good book.

Third one is funny - and while it conveys the feeling of a loose and energetic sketch it really has all the depth a painting needs to feed a viewer’s interest over a longer time than just the inital “whoa”.

The “egyptian-esque”, last one is my favourite. The tender core-shadows support the expressive poses in a way that together with the overall composition of your characters this looks like a ballet snapshot or an ancient ritual.

holysmokes, mayun! It’s hawt!

#289

Mu You Are One Of The Few That Understand This Series of Paintings… Really Appreciate You Feeding The Monkey!

[i]Here are 4 more large pastels in the
Tre Grazie series and the section of
my studio where we are filming the
8 new anatomy DVD’s

This One Is Just A Dry Run Thru

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#290

hey,

you know what struck me today? I don’t know if I ever mentioned it, but one thing that really fascinates me about you is how your determination to make every stroke just look good even extends into the realm of written words.

I mean, I was having a real hard time deciphering your ideas and notes on some of your previous anatomy studies, but all the time I knew it had much to do with the fact that you used a highly stylized form of handwriting.

And now, after this new set of wonderful pastels, when I checked out the writing on the board it kinda hit me over the head that here is a man who wants to make sure that even his writing looks like a painting.

This is otherworldly, really…:scream:

The shaded face in the second one is electrifying. Such a small area in the painting, but a vast area for emotional projections.

I love the liquid honey forms in the third one.

The combination of reflected light areas and cool against warm (again) in the last one defies the two-dimensionality of the medium itself… it looks more like a sculpture and the fact that you combined this with the flat areas in the background which kind of scream “the world is flat” is unbearably masterful.

I hope that one far away day, probably only when I am already white-haired and mumbling incomprehensible stuff into my beard while my nurse prepares lunch, I will be able to master so many aspects of creating figurative paintings in a similar way.

I will be thinking of your stuff, then.

#291

HEY …DOC …:thumbsup:

LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE BREATHING LIFE BACK INTO EXPRESSIONISM :bounce: :applause: :thumbsup: …FANTASTIC JOB …:slight_smile:

TAKE CARE
Glenn

#292

[i]Spiritdreamer and Mu much appreciated.
Here are a few shots to the studio and
the demonstration board after
the upper leg and knee demonstrations.

   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio1.jpg[/img]
   
   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio3.jpg[/img]
   
   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio13.jpg[/img]
   
   Here is where I read and grab an nap now and them
   
   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio14.jpg[/img]
   
   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio15.jpg[/img]
   
   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio16.jpg[/img]
   
   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio19.jpg[/img]
   
   This is the arena where we are  filming the DVD's 
   should be done be the end of the summer.
   We are also planning to do several shorter streaming video's.
   
   [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v413/mentler/The%20Book%20of%20Bones/studio17.jpg[/img]
   
   This a 8' 6"x 6' Tre Grazie painting just getting under way


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#293

Hi…Doc …:slight_smile:

GREAT to see your setup…must be nice to have all that space to work in…even room for a thinking and dreaming couch …jealous :scream: :slight_smile:
Was wondering…what kind of surface is that last piece on…the large one…Is it canvas, masonite, paper ?..just curious…Should be awsome, being that big .:thumbsup: …LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE FINISHED PIECE …:slight_smile:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#294

The last large painting is on stretched canvas (cotton duck) I usually work on a toothier linen but this was and one piece that never got finished so I gessoed over and started a new one.

Will record the progress on these piece so all can see the process.

Thanks for dropping by.:slight_smile:

#295

I can only drool.

#296

agrees with Serena :drool:

#297

Here is the drawing arena after we finished filming the HAND dvd.

Got a chance to put a little paint on this bad boy
This is a big painting (6 x 8 feet) so I am roughing in in acrylic and will finish in oils.

#298

BOAH! AMAZING STUFF! :thumbsup:
Your paintings and sketches are so full of life! :applause: Enviable :smiley:

#299

Awesome studio:bounce:The paintings are creatively brilliant but I couldnt understand them as perfectly as Mu has [:)]

P.S. : your handwriting is very special:buttrock:

#300

[b]Will launch massive feedback attack soon to
all of your thread and leave mega stars.
Please know you are appreciated.
For us time is not necessarily money but it is art!

A few pages of coffee stains and other things.


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