dickens14
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| 01/10/2008 5:18 PM |
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| Hello, I have have not checked in for quite a while, things have been crazy. Here is my latest painting. My favorite time of day, the time I call the magic hour, is just before dusk. I love the way the everything glows and the shadows get long. This is why I titled this painting The Magic Hour. I spent some time just south of Pinnacle Peak, in Scottsdale, AZ, photographing the McDowell Mountains from the North West side. I hope you enjoy sharing the sunset with me! |
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dickens14
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| 01/14/2008 4:53 PM |
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| Thanks to whoever gave me the 5 stars, I was surprised however to receive no feedback. Lucy |
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Kim
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| 01/15/2008 12:57 PM |
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| Lucy, I'm surprised you didn't get any feedback, either. I'm seeing this for the first time today and this is gorgeous! Dusk is my favorite time of the day, too. Living in the southwest, it seems that at this time of the day, all colors are magnified and come together in a beautiful harmony that can't be described - only seen. |
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dickens14
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| 01/15/2008 4:47 PM |
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| Thank you so much. I absolutely agree with you about having to see that time of day here. It is difficult to describe, I strive to capture a glimse into that moment. Lucy |
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mikec@pols
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| 01/16/2008 6:30 AM |
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Very nice! It's pulls ya right into it...love the lighting!
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gene
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| 01/16/2008 8:04 AM |
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| This is beautiful. I'm sorry not to have seen this before. I've been very busy, and although I check in often, I tend to make it a brief visit, sometimes skipping certain categories. I am very glad I saw this one. I can't find a thing to criticize on it.................just wanted to say it is absolutely great. Gene |
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pastelmimigt
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| 01/17/2008 10:25 PM |
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The colors and lighting are beautiful. But I think the mountain looks too small compared to the plants.
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dickens14
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| 01/21/2008 8:07 PM |
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| Thank you for the feedback. As for the mountain, It is a large one and was pretty far off. That was the scale of the plants as I photographed them. I tend to get down low and try to get a lot of close up foreground in a distant landscape. Maybe you are referring to wanting to see more middle ground? |
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Peggy
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| 01/22/2008 9:15 AM |
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Hi Lucy,
This is just lovely, I am an oil artist and just haven't been able to get the feel for acrylics, they dry too fast for me. Anyway, I guess because I haven't worked much in the medium, I had no idea you could get this much beauty out of them. It's wonderful!!! I think I may need to check out this category more often. I agree with the others assessment. Composition is good, lights are wonderful, love the mood this sets. Time for a long lazy evening walk. Today it's really cold here in Alabama, looking at this I can just feel the late afternoon warmth on my shoulders, and smell the light fragrance of desert wildflowers in the air. Thanks.
Peggy
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dickens14
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| 01/22/2008 10:27 AM |
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| What beautiful feedback to wake up too, thank you so much. As for my working with acrylic, it has taken a lot of expirimintation for me to have it look and feel like oil. I actually have never tried oil before. I am a self taught artist that has learned painting by expirimentation, books, videos and just a couple workshops. I believe it has been about 4 years now. I hope you check out my website. www.soulexpressionsart.com |
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pastelmimigt
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| 01/22/2008 11:35 AM |
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Posted By dickens14 on 01/21/2008 8:07 PM
Thank you for the feedback. As for the mountain, It is a large one and was pretty far off. That was the scale of the plants as I photographed them. I tend to get down low and try to get a lot of close up foreground in a distant landscape. Maybe you are referring to wanting to see more middle ground?
Yes, perhaps that's it. The mountain doesn't look like it's far away, but instead like it's close to the plants. |
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River
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| 01/22/2008 5:35 PM |
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Lucy...went to your website! Beautiful...what joy your pictures must bring to people for whom the desert is the landscape they know and love. I'm from too far out east to fully understand it's beauty...but I'm sure it is beautifully unique. My husband went camping out there as a boy scout when he was a kid, and talked about it as an adult...how beautiful the desert could be!
I hope you are in some gallerys...there isn't anything art school could teach you . |
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dickens14
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| 01/22/2008 5:52 PM |
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| Thank you. I am in Providence Gallery on Main Street in Scottsdale. I have been there about two years. I am excited and honored to be there as a new artist. Thank you for your opinion of my work. There are times as certain questions are asked that I feel intimidated by my lack of a formal art education and wonder if shouldn't take some classes to expand upon that knowledge. |
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larry
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| 01/23/2008 4:14 AM |
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| Very nice picture - a bit too surealistic or uber- realist for my taste. It feels like a Walt Disney scene but I wish I had the patience to do work like this. |
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dickens14
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| 01/23/2008 8:24 AM |
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| Well, I am not quite sure how to take that feedback..... I wonder if you have been to the desert before as sunset? These are the colors and mood that you get. I have not exagerated that. If you have I am not sure how you get "surealistic or uber- realist" out of this? It does not make any sense to me unless what you mean is that you prefer a more impressionistic style in general. |
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gene
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| 01/23/2008 9:32 AM |
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| Again, this is beautiful. Congratulations on being in the gallery in Scottsdale. If I were you, I don't think you need to worry about formal art training. I think you have what it takes, and you certainly don't want to mess up a good thing...........There is one little thing that I noticed when I just looked at the painting. I immediately noticed on the plant on the right, there, on the flower most to the left, you have the flower painted exactly on the same line as the mountain shape next to it, and also on the little touch of green immediately below the flower it lines up exactly on the line of that mountain crest, forming tangents along those two lines. Now, that seems minor, I'm sure, but somehow my eye keeps going right to that spot. I'm sure that could be very easily fixed simply by angling out or slightly lengthening the orange flower in a different direction right where it meets the line of the mountain. Do you see that? Maybe that's being a bit picky, but I see it every time I look at the otherwise beautiful painting. HappyPainting. Gene |
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LMB
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| 01/23/2008 9:39 AM |
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Hi Lucy,
I like your painting. You have captured the feel of the desert and mountains. I live in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert and don’t have the type of cacti that you depicted, but certainly have the ocotillo that you painted.
Leon
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dickens14
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| 01/23/2008 10:35 AM |
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| Thanks Leon and Gene. Now that I look again I do see what you mean. That I appreciate...as it helps me to learn and grow as an artist. |
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Lucy Dickens
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