Waiting for Eve

[irish artist]

This image tells of the apple that Eve probably saw and decided to sample. The thorns signify the trouble to come for all man-kind if Eve should succumb to temptation.

[irish artist]

Whoops, caught a little reflection. Sorry about that, new digitial camera. I'll get the hang of it after a few tries. :D

[Classical Vince]

This is a beautiful rendering Irish. You caught my eye with the title. This is very well done, what medium? The composition and theme keep my eye looking for the apple. I like the effect. Great job.

[gnu]

Hi Irish..see my comments in Still Life..:)

[irish artist]

Yes, gnu, I found your comments in the cross-post. Thanks.

Vince, I started oil painting class the past winter and I wasn't sure if I wanted to start on canvas or an Art Board that I bought to try months ago. I choose the Art Board for my portrait but I had trouble right away and switched to canvas. The Art Board was too absorbent. I had to prime it with Luquin. Since I'd restart the portrait in canvas I decided to use the Art Board for this subject-so the medium is Art Board used with oil paint. I also had to brace the board in the back by gluing on slats of hardwood plywood. If you want to do all this work it makes a wonderful surface to paint on-not too slick, slightly absorbent.

[LarrySeiler]

carries a great deal of metaphor doesn't it? Nicely done....

Larry

[sassybird]

This painting certainly get's it's point across. Lovely work. I especially like the way you did the leaves so that you felt you could peek behind them to see what else is back there. It really carries the eye into the painting.

[irish artist]

Hi Sassy, Hope your husband is better by now. Yes, my intention exactly, that Eve had to look for the apple, she could see it's bright red through the grass and leaves. Oh, what a bright treasure, surely one bite wouldn't hurt anything! In all of art the scene is deplicted with the apple hanging on a tree branch, openly tempting her, surely she'd know that the serpent was trying something that way! But if it was hidden? She saw it by chance? Couldn't be the serpent's work, could it?

[chocHollyK]

Irish:
This is beautifully done; I had the same reaction, that the 'prize' was suspended just a reach away.... I was also taken by the 'tangledness' of all the stems, thorns, leaves.... 'oh what a tangled web we weave'???
or enter into...etc....
Very clever, very beautiful...
thanks for sharing it.... Holly

[irish artist]

Glad you could see it, Holly. Yes, exactly. At first I was just painting an apple in the grass and next I'm painting brambles overhead to help hide the apples. It just evolved that way. The more I painted and thought, the more the Genesis message began to shine forth and the Creator would guide my brush.

[e-bwm123]

This is exeplary of symbolic art. The thought behind this piece is so profound and the quality supberb! God bless and thanks for sharing it.

[TeaSoiree]

This is a beautiful rendering Irish. You caught my eye with the title. This is very well done, what medium? The composition and theme keep my eye looking for the apple. I like the effect. Great job.

Yeap.