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spooge demon · Posted: Thu May 18, 2000 11:15 pm

Enough whining. Drove up into the moutains and did this one. I have been looking at the california impressionists for a while now.

The movement was really amazing at first, but later was very stilted with endless poppy field and eucalyptus trees that were painted without thinking about anything. Very formula. Like a Frazetta knock off.

One of the bigger names was a fellow named William Wendt, whose mature style had very highly designed shapes. I think I prefer his earlier stuff: the color was extraordinary. If you have a chance, look him up. There is an original at LA County Museum.

freddy flicks stones · Posted: Thu May 18, 2000 11:27 pm

I'm curious, do you take a lap top out with you and do these, or is this painted, with paint? Reason why I ask, how in the hey do you photograph the painting so flat? No sheen or reflections. And there are many brush strokes that look wacomish. Is this a G3 or G4 Easel you are using? I never thought of this before, interesting twist to plein aire painting...
Beautiful to say the least...and the colors are spectacular...And again you captured the lighting like no other...you would have made a memorable impressionist if you had been born a hundred years earlier...Betcha ya liked painting the lion warrior more than this...I mean, come on, you had to actually go OUTSIDE to do this...

ha...

Binke · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 2:54 am

Pretty

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theresa · member Member # Joined: 05 Apr 2000 Posts: 200

binke... *slowly comes out of meditation* *BBBCCSHHHT* sure. you say pretty now. wait till i frickasee you with my lightsaber.

very nice mister demon. i would like these framed so i can put them in my apartment. hehe

micke · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 3:07 am

Very nice! I love the colours.

-Micke

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Gordillo · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 3:41 am

Beautiful colors and composition.Really nice work!!!

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Binke · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 4:04 am

AHA! Theresa, I see you'v mastered the skill of teleporting between threads! *SChhh*
Give me your best shot! (or swing maybe?)

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HumanClay · Guest Member #

Wow..

And just in case Spooge doesn't reply to this again, I'm pretty sure he has a little Macintosh laptop (i think he said an iBook) with a little Wacom that he uses to paint from life..

HumanClay

Frost · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 5:01 am

Is it ok NOT to like this? Guess I never was or will be an "artist" then...

No offense Spooge, but that's a style I can't dig. I have trouble decyphering what the image is, and the saturation level is high and even everywhere. I know my oppinion may not be respected in this particular case, and I certainly don't mean to trash anyone's artwork -- but there's a level of abstractedness which I cannot get into. Guess I'm way too narrow minded and technical.

cheers.
Frost - the artistically blind loser

PS - I sincerely hope that didn't bring you down with what I said. If you enjoy painting this and there is a certain audience who does understand that type of artwork, then it's great -- the point I think is to enjoy what you do and paint, not what an amateur dick like myself thinks.

[This message has been edited by Frost (edited May 19, 2000).]

n8 · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 5:32 am

looks like its been dun with paint to me...??
and if ya attatch the tablet to the laptop....dont it sukk away the batterylife real quik...??...coz the tablets require power n all...

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spooge demon
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"Yes, I have an i-book with a USB tablet. Trying to paint with the microscopic finger-thingy would make you insane.... "

See!

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LoneDragoon · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 9:26 am

Frost: I'm with you, I'm really not into this type of painting. I'm not saying that other people can't like it though. This just really isn't my style. I look at the painting for several minutes and I *THINK* I can make out a tree in there... no offence intended spooge, obviously there are a lot of people in here who like it, and I do like the palette you used, It's just not my cup of tea.

Fred Flick Stone · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 9:55 am

impressionism can be difficult for one to take in at first. When I first got involved with painting, I liked Bougureau and Alma Tadema, etc. but when you go the gammut and explore what painting really is all about, and it isn't just about copying an image, I began to appreciate this sort of art much more than I did. It is harder to do, trying to paint the essence of something without getting involved in all the detailed nuances is really tough to do. Let alone capture the correct volumes of the objects painted, the correct lighting and values etc. It's certainly not for everyone...

samdragon · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 10:07 am

I used to hate impressionism untill I took a 19th century art history class. I love the stuff now!
Wow spooge! this is great stuff, I bet it feels great to go out and do something like this and break away from the usual stuff.
If you could pick up beams of light and paint with them, this is what it would look like..

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Stolln · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 12:19 pm

I really love this piece, Craig.

Although I love realistic paintings, since they are such a feat to create, I am a fanatic about expression of true feeling. This is why I am drawn to anything that really shows feeling and emotion, and not just what life looks like.

I think you really captured a great deal of your personality in this piece, Craig; it sort of characterizes you. Curved strokes following by horizontal/vertical stroke; light, warm tones followed by dark, luring tones; great contrast, and a wonderful feeling.

Impressionism is one of my favorite styles of painting, because as long as you express the feeling of the painting, nothing really else matters. No rules, no compositional restrictions, no perspective restrictions (at least that's how I look at thing); just a showing of emotion.

Wonderful...just...wonderful.

ole · Posted: Fri May 19, 2000 12:28 pm

Cool, it really looks like it's painted using paint. Is it?

spooge demon · Posted: Sat May 20, 2000 1:44 am

Hey, cool, glad this got some people talking about different things.

It is a real painting, whatever that is, but it is oil on canvas on board. Fred's eagle eye spotted a dab of the wacom, and it is there, I played around with the scan (I was interested in how to scan originals with a textured surface. Fred, just pray your original has no gloss to it

) and forgot to use a new layer. Instead of rescanning the thing and stitching, I just left it as is.

I am intrigued by painting, scanning, outputting and painting some more. I am sure it would lead to some very unique and rich surfaces with a lot of control as well.

Frost and others who don't like it, that's fine. I am glad you feel OK about saying so. I remember seeing the CA impressionists when I was in school and thinking it was a little sentimental and boring.

I think one of the first post I made was a sketch from life of my driveway done on a macintosh fischer price hockey puck. I does work, and if you are trying to record info quickly, it is better than paint.

Stolln, thanks for seeing so much in it.

One thing I have to work on is the rhythm of the strokes and shapes. They are not flowing the way they should. The forms will disintegrate even more into abstraction.