12 x 12, oil on board
The new culture in DC is that of listening, so newspapers tell us. Wednesday Night Meeting are conducted to prevent becoming ‘consumed by the insularity of Washington’. Is DC listening to artists?
What are artists listening to? Are we offering dazzling Hollywood-type experiences like the British/Indian movie Slumdog millionaire? Its phony aspects are discussed by M.ECHANOVE and R.SRIVASTAVA. Are we creating pieces that permit a more genuine experience such as the movie ‘A woman in Berlin’?
Are we listening to world around us, to our inner spark, or do we trudge through the streets trailed by our goose.
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I too am there this week – Listening. Off on Spring Break. See you in a week
And the oil on board painting? Yours?
Birgit:
The painting appears to depict a form of respiration (popular term of late). The profiled individual seems to be both an author and an audience. If you painted this, then I my congratulations on a nice metaphysical image. I’m especially taken by the contrasting accents along the top of the crescent shape.
Birgit,
This painting is quite interesting with respect to light. It gives a sense of intense luminosity. I also like the composition and colors. The only suggestion I would make is perhaps a bit more blending in the colors of the face.
The purple and moon and symbolic atmosphere remind me of Angela’s paintings. But the water is a very Birgit element.
The purple and moon and symbolic atmosphere remind me of Angela’s paintings.
Steve,
Yes, yes I see what you mean. I think the reflection of Angela is there also, I must have been feeling it but I didn’t put it into words until I read your comment. There is also something of Angela in the colors, an intensity and openness that is very interesting. Birgit, I think you have real potential as a painter! Is this a finished painting?
I am glad that one finds the solar eclipse picture interesting.
I appreciate The profiled individual seems to be both an author and an audience.
The sticks on top of the crescent are Jay-like.
The streaks on the face are more noticeable in this photograph than in the original. I don’t know if I will smooth them over. It might make the picture too sweet.
Well, I did wonder about moon vs. sun, but I guess I went with probability and the influence of the familiar crescent shape. That shape is echoed in the highlights on the woman’s face as she takes in the streaming light.
Birgit:
That must have been one buff goose. Geese waddle, fly and swim about. To my knowledge they don’t hike unless forced to by circumstance or a woman with a leash. No pate’ forthcoming from that bird.
In the A&P spirit I decided to see what the image would be like minus the body of water and the woman from the neck down. The effect became somewhat claustrophobic as the crescent lost the distance it gained from association with the horizon line and tended to crowd in. The give and take does require a sense of space. You knew it all along.
I’m busy trying to see myself as others see me. It’s about those sticks on top of the crescent.
Steve,
Having just read ‘Brida’ by Paulo Coelho, I was introduced to the Teachings of the Sun and the Moon. At this time, I see myself more of a Sun devotee.
I hadn’t realized that the crescent shape was echoing the streaks on the face, thanks.
I thought the image could use some context.
Karl,
I don’t want her imprisoned. On the poor monitor of my laptop, your siding looks very dark.
At this time, the sides of my 3/4 inch board are painted a wonderfully subdued hue, mixture of cadmium red/raw umber/raw sienna that will do for now.
For the moment, I have given up on frames after having tried to frame pictures last week.
P.S. I am getting used to your frame.
Jay,
I didn’t mean to put a label on you (how annoying that must feel), I was merely associating your mentioning of the ‘contrasting accents along the top of the crescent shape’ with your last post.
Karl,
Troels says that the frame makes the picture look subtle.
Birgit:
Some friends once told me that Blazing Saddles was my kind of movie. And here I thought all along that it was Citizen Kane. Then Jerry Underwood opined that the landscape around Beatty, Az. is my kind of place. It’s within that context that I mentioned what I did. I think that others see me better than I do myself.
Jay,
Not in a desert, but in a Savannah.
Birgit:
What with my sense and all.