mikec@pols
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| 05/01/2008 1:04 PM |
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Well, I finished it. Let me know your thoughts. It really didn't take too long to finish I just wanted a break from it while I worked on few other pieces...
Canson MiTeintes paper, 19.5x22.5
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LovetoPastel
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| 05/01/2008 1:45 PM |
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| Yeah!! Its done! and it looks great, Mike. What's next? |
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| 05/01/2008 2:50 PM |
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| This is so awesome! |
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mikec@pols
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| 05/02/2008 7:20 AM |
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Suzanne, thank you! I greatly appreciate and value your opinion. I'm doing two pastel pieces that I am hoping to get in a show back in Colorado. One is of a draft horse and the other is of some whitetails in a fall woods setting. I've also started four oils, so I am going to be busy for awhile!
Justine, thank you also! It's so nice to hear good comments on this, being that it is one that I built and not one that someone else commissioned...just kinda validates my efforts. |
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| 05/02/2008 9:13 AM |
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| Just Beautiful! I love your attention to detail. |
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tinae
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| 05/03/2008 2:22 AM |
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| Wow! It´s so beautyfull - so full of atmosphere and your skill is beyond compare! |
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mikec@pols
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| 05/03/2008 9:23 AM |
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Thank you, Kathy! I do like to use detail in my work...
Tinae, Thank you also! I appreciate your kind words! I feel I still have a lot to learn, but with all of the help I get from fellow artists on here, I'm learning more every day!
Mike
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BecArt
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| 05/03/2008 1:04 PM |
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| This is really cool! Your really good. |
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Jim
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| 05/03/2008 7:28 PM |
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Hi Mike,
Great job!
Thanks for showing the close ups.\
The sign on the side of the truck is fantastic!
The tail on the word fox....Brilliant!!
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All the best,
Jim
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mikec@pols
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| 05/04/2008 6:00 AM |
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BecArt, thank you! Is there some of your work posted here somewhere? I would like to see it!
Jim, thanks! Just wanted to tie it all together and the tail on the word fox kinda came to me as I was lettering the panel. Some times this ole' mind works, some times it don't!
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| 05/07/2008 11:16 PM |
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 This is really nice and interesting and full of detail and fun! And its a large peice! Very nice and creative and well done. You should find something to enter it in, it would do well. |
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mikec@pols
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| 05/10/2008 6:51 AM |
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Thank you, Ida! I haven't shown in years, I might get up the nerve again soon, who knows?
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"You either grow or regress...nothing stays the same...." (unknown)
"A man may fall several times in life, but he is not a failure until he says that he was pushed..."
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BecArt
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| 05/21/2008 9:56 AM |
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| Mike, no I don't have any work on here yet, but I should. I'll try to get some on here soon, but it might be a little while. |
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gene
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| 05/21/2008 2:39 PM |
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| Mike, this is fantastic! You are really great with those pastels. I'm sure it will get into the shows. Let us know. I haven't posted anything for quite a while. I'm busy with an oil class and am too amateurish so far to want to post anything in oils yet. |
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Pablo V.
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| 05/22/2008 11:58 PM |
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| This is waaaaaay cool! love the concept, the composition, the techniques! Great job! |
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mikec@pols
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| 05/23/2008 5:58 AM |
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BecArt, I look forward to seeing your work!
Thank you, Gene! This series/group is going to a new shop over on Lake Michigan. I don't know if i will show anything for awhile...I can't wait to see some of your oils!!!!!!
Pablo, thank you! Good to see you back. |
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"A man may fall several times in life, but he is not a failure until he says that he was pushed..."
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| 05/28/2008 6:11 PM |
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WoW!
your work is so beatyful.
I love your colors..
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mikec@pols
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| 05/29/2008 7:41 AM |
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Thank you, Mette!
Color is always good. I'm learing with every new piece that I do, that there are so many more colors hiding in there some where. It's fun to pull them out!
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| 10/29/2008 6:25 PM |
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| This is great Mike...wish I could do pastels like this. |
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| 10/31/2008 9:00 AM |
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| Hi Mike,
New member - I really like your work. Reminds me a bit of "Wyeth" grass (Wyeth #2).
I love to play with my paintings (and WIP) in Photoshop to adjust what I am seeing / producing. Maybe because I have a limited imagination. What you can do in Photoshop often exceeds what pastels can do but it still helps me as a tool.
I took the liberty of making a few tweaks to see what you thought.
I felt that the foxes were the main focus - I love the composition and the way that they draw your eye, so I shifted the car and grass in hue a tad more yellow. The contrast in the red of the foxes bring them forward as they are slightly hotter. I took the chroma down on the sky and darkened it to further shift focus forward to warmer colors. I brought the contrast up to make shadows a bit darker and make your form pop on the car. At the end of the day - these changes were minimal so I don't know if you would change anything, but it is fun to do.
Not sure if the changes I pushed help or not but I always play this way with my paintings to see the "what ifs." It is a good tool to use on color, contrast, and masses (not so much with line except to maybe blur a line when you want to investigate a lost edge).
Anyway, you have a great eye and a great palette to give age to your the antique "wreckage" in your painting. You also have a wry sense of humor. I really like this painting.
Keep up the great work !
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