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Just like you lot, I want to be popular...
Sorry, wrong thread. Seriously, there's a watercolour painting in the gallery now called Rose Fragrance. It's quite amazing...
Most of the work I see I can figure out how it was done, even if I myself couldn't do it, so i could try it out. But this defies my brain. It's very masterfully done.
I dont know what it saying really, Just that some art is so good I cant even fathom the technique!
David
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Hi David
I agree that some paintings are so good they leave you wondering how they achieved it, and try as you might you cannot achieve the same effect. I like the work done by the Danish painter Peder Mork Monsted, his technique is so good that it like looking a photographs, his woodland and snow scenes are amazing. Still it good to have something and someone who keeps you interested and trying to achieve a better standard.
Not sure that this is the answer to your comments or if there is an answer?
Dixie
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You are popular David P 😉. Yes wrong thread .
Just looked at Rose Fragrance and it is rather beautiful . If you look at other paintings in Thomas Habermanns gallery they are all quite special.
Dixie just followed your suggestion to look at Peder Mork Monsted paintings . I had not heard of him. Quite remarkable work, thanks for the heads up.
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by SylviaEvans
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I can see how it was done - indeed, the artist tells us. What I couldn't do is, um - do it.
He has reserved his whites/light areas on the basis of careful drawing and planning, basing the whole painting on negative shapes without the (dis)benefit of masking fluid. He's also used some of the most beautiful colours available - and that's no short-cut: you have to know what those colours are, apply them with a sure hand, and choose exactly the right ones to start with.
I am not entranced by spatter, generally speaking - it can look overdone, or even just unnecessary; but that's a cruel criticism, if criticism it be: I think the painting would have been even better without it, but - that's a matter of taste.
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I've hi-jacked David's thread which is relevant to my question.
There is an artist who has been posting 'paintings' on the gallery over the past months, dancers/ballerina style perhaps and always in blocks of four, so you must be familiar with them! They are all painted using a 'knife' (to use his term), which astounded me. To be able to get that level of detail, blending/feathering and so on is well above my capabilities and comprehension (not that I want to paint like that). Anyone know how to achieve this level using a knife? Anyone here who works solely with a painting knife?
I do enjoy working with a selection of painting knives occasionally, using them in my normal 'gung-ho' anything goes expressive style. I didn't ask the medium but I did ask the following questions which he kindly answered. You will have to visit today's gallery if you want to read Richard's reply.
''Do you work from your own reference material, as obviously these aren't 'live' poses?
It's incredibly difficult to attain that level of detail and blending using a painting knife, I would be very interested to see a work in progress.
They do have a certain photographic look about them, which is presumably your intention.''
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Re Alan's post. I note the gentleman's reply indicated that he also only mixes raw colour on the canvas. Some of his earlier postings (he seems to have been absent for quite some time) particularly some of his tango paintings and his Bellydance of the Pyramids are even more remarkable. I hope he takes up Alan's suggestion and one of his multipostings shows a series of work in progress. Although this is not really an appropriate thread I have to congratulate Alan on his diplomatic phrasing regarding four a day postings - though perhaps for some-one who seems to have posted 19 images in one day (8 Sep 2007) it is not feedback he is looking for.