[Heysoos]

a few new oil paintings I've just finished. tell me what you think.

14"x19"


19"x14"


30"x24"

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[watmough]

I think they're great.
It seems you're resisting the urge to finish them more than necessary,hard to do.....I respect that.

[Max]

Quite interesting! I really like the second one. First one would be a nice wall texture : )

[Matthew]

Your work somehow resemble something between Turner and this swedish author "August Strindberg", 19th century. He picked up painting late 19th century and was very much inspired by Turner as what I have read about him.
Here's some of his paintings, pretty small so I am sorry about that:

http://www.strindbergsmuseet.se/verken/paintings/1.html

Anyway nice to see you tackle the painting different ways and I mostly prefer when you have a steady workflow as in that whitetree one.
ok I am rambling here
keep up the good work
Matthew

[Petri.J]

I like them.
How do you do those textures?

[noxi]

have you posted your oil paintings before? Reminds me alot of one my favorite romantic painter Turner (like Matthew mentioned). The first one is great. I love the lighting and atmosphere. Second one has a bit boring composition, but it�s ok too. The last one is very interesting, the mood is very accurate. Water looks ver.... well, wet. Great use of brush strokes and palette knife. Admireable.

[Heysoos]

watmough: thanks a lot. yeah, its definitely a hard urge to resist to keep noodling
on things more than I should.

Max Kulich: Thanks man.

Matthew: Awesome, thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of that guy before. Reminds
me of your stuff too. I searched the web a bit for some more pictures of his
and found this page: http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje41/text07p.htm

Petri.J: Thanks. For the textures I start out with thick gesso for priming the
surface which I apply by hand and play around with as it dries to create an
interesting surface to work on. while painting I do a lot of work with a putty knife,
and layers of drippy washes, scumbling, toothbrushering, and whatever other ways
of making marks I can think of. I'm working on one now where I'm using cement
for the first layer and then gessoing and painting ontop of that, good fun.


noxi: thanks a lot. I've posted oil paintings a few times before. you can check out
some more of them at my site at www.angelfire.com/art2/wfkeil (I'll make
myself a good website one of these days). And yeah, I'm a huge Turner fan


thanks for the comments.
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[Petri.J]

[Heysoos]

I don't know of any tutorials, this is just some goofy little technique I figured out by experimenting and have been playing with. It kind of comes from doing woodcuts, intaglio and collagraph printmaking. with print making you learn to really pay attention to the way texture turns into marks, especially with collographs. So I like to recommend people who want to be painters to also take printmaking classes if they get a chance just because its a good learning experience and what you learn will feed into your paintings. Thats my experience with it anyway.

I don't have any of my collographs I've done with me to show, but heres an example of what one is that I found on google.

http://www.iowabiennial.org/Selections/large/pages/Depart_Large.htm
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[shft5]

I absolutely love the second piece. It's so lively and expressionistic.

[Naeem]

i love them.
but the first one, i thought it was a picture of eroded concrete/stone or something. there's little contrast. perhaps it was the camera?
beautiful work. i love ur oil paintings.
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[Heysoos]

thanks a lot shft5 and annisahmad. yeah, I think the top two pictures are a little off from what they really look like. the top ones a bit washed out, the real thing is still kinda hazy and not really contrasty but a bit more so than it looks in that picture. I'll try to get some better pictures of them.
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