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ejc-art
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| 10/02/2007 5:46 PM |
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Well, here's the latest from my studio. My wife is a seamstress and made these pillows, I thought it would be a nice departure from a "more typical" still life approach.
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connie
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| 10/02/2007 8:48 PM |
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Beautiful
Unbelievable
You certainly have allot of patients.
There isn't a thing that bothers me,
accept maybe the shadow of the large pillow?
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Jim
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| 10/02/2007 8:48 PM |
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Amazing work!! You are truly a talented artist, and know
your medium. The layering work you do here is something
I would love to learn. It gives your painting that smooth buttery
appearance that escapes me. Nice detail work too. I think you could
paint a can of tuna and make it look good.
Jim
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All the best,
Jim
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vikingwife
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| 10/03/2007 6:43 AM |
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WOW!!!! When I fisrt glanced at this.....I thought you were showing us a photo of the still life you WOULD be doing. This is fantastic! You captured the different textures of fabric extremely well. Beautiful!
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Kim
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| 10/03/2007 12:58 PM |
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| Outstanding! I think it goes without saying that this is a nice departure from the usual. How you achieved the look and feel of those fabrics is beyond me. I want to see more! |
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gene
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| 10/04/2007 9:27 AM |
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| This is outstanding. I am also a seamstress, and I think you captured those pillows beautifully.And the wood surface (the floor?) is just great. Thanks for sharing this.................Gene (yeah, I'm a woman!) |
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klippie
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| 10/04/2007 11:27 PM |
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Posted By gene on 10/04/2007 9:27 AM
This is outstanding. I am also a seamstress, and I think you captured those pillows beautifully.And the wood surface (the floor?) is just great. Thanks for sharing this.................Gene (yeah, I'm a woman!)
Totally agree with Gene....as I was a fashion designer before.....
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ejc-art
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| 10/05/2007 8:23 AM |
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| Whoa! The positive response is overwhelming! I appreciate all of your comments. Gene, the pillows are actually on a table I have, I know, it looks like the hardwood floor of a basketball court! |
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Snowartist
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| 10/08/2007 11:22 PM |
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| So realistic! Very good job! |
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jbmerrill
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| 10/09/2007 6:27 AM |
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| Good God man... You have changed my opinion of the still life painting. I always thought them mundane short of the truly dazzling colored ones, but you take the form to a new level for me. Your attention to detail is inspiring! You paint light as light is. Marvelous! |
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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -van Gogh
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ejc-art
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| 10/11/2007 5:14 PM |
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| Jim, I have felt the same about a lot of the still lifes I typically see. All too often, they're cliche and follow the same old ho-hum. I admit that I have my share of 'typical' still lifes, but it's great when I can put something down that isn't the same ol' thing. I have two pieces I'm working on right now that I'm feeling really good about, I'll be posting them once they're done. |
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jbmerrill
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| 10/14/2007 7:42 AM |
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Eric,
I'll be enthusiastically waiting their finish. As I said, you've woke my eye to this kind of painting and have even considered a still myself. And that has been a very short lived subject for me. I've been thinking about the subject... And its seems to be the subject that really counts in a still, even if one has a stroke such as yours. |
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Jim Merrill
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If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -van Gogh
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one who sees
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| 10/14/2007 8:05 AM |
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wonderful piece....and i adore still life work...but your exactly right...some of them are just boring...how many times can we paint a chianti bottle with rafia wrapping? as artists of this day and time...we have to think outside the box a bit...in this instance...eh..fabric...and beautifully done fabric/pillows/drapes...
wonderful job....its luxurious...lustrous...has sheen, value and contrast of textures....a visual pleasure....excellent job! |
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~I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it~
Vincent Van Gogh
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ejc-art
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| 10/18/2007 5:19 PM |
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I think one of the advantages of Still Life is the fact that there are so many possibilities! One can choose whatever he/she wants, but as 'One who sees' pointed out, "how many times can we paint a chianti bottle with rafia wrapping?" unfortunately, and all too often, artists tread the same ground over and over again. Although I say this, I nevertheless will still do traditional still lifes from time to time, but all of your wonderful comments encourage me to continue to branch out and explore different ideas. I think that you, Betty Ann, did a fantastic job of taking a common theme and making it unique with your painting of apples that you recently graced us with. And Jim, I'm excited to see the results of a possible future still life from you.
I am not a modernist or abstract painter, and I feel that all things can be conveyed through realism. The limitations that the modern artists say regarding realism are only the limitations within the realist. As a realist I feel that every single thing on this entire earth and beyond is my model and I would be foolish to always paint what has already been painted and be a rerun of the what has been done before. That said, every once and a while I will get the urge to break out a bouquet of flowers and fruit! |
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one who sees
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| 10/19/2007 8:24 AM |
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oh yea totally agree, i think the only limits a realist has are their own...realism is an individual interpretation...its as open really as abstraction is....no two abstract painters are the same...well no two realists are truly the same....color, brush work, contrasts, subject matter all define us from each other..
and thank you! about the black and white with apples...thats a perfect case in point too....i decided to do something a bit different...and bingo!...two first place ribbons in two different competitions this year for that painting.... and the judges comments? "an intriguing interpretation of a traditional subject matter"....so see? you werent off at all!...
i am a realist through and through, but within that window? i create my own world...my visions...and produce i hope paintings that are as individual as my fingerprints...
as you? the world, everything my eyes fall upon is my subject matter...and there is always something new that these eyes find!...
i hope to see much more of your work....and? hope that you are challenging yourself by exhibiting it!! |
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Vincent Van Gogh
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