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09-11-2002, 11:42 AM
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Red Rose no2
A recent rose,
3ft 6ins x 3ft 6ins. oil on canvas, 2002
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09-11-2002, 11:45 AM
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Don't know where the picture went...
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09-11-2002, 11:50 AM
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....and another attempt.
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09-11-2002, 11:58 AM
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Okay, so this is getting silly, I'll try altering the file type
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09-11-2002, 06:04 PM
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gareth
this is quite lovely, I do find the white to be distracting and was wondering are you planning on doing any more to this painting?
I also wanted to say your black flower painting was in my opinion one of the most beautiful paintings I have seen in a long time. It took my breath away.
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09-11-2002, 07:17 PM
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Quote:
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Okay, so this is getting silly, I'll try altering the file type
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Pretty, I can almost smell it 
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09-11-2002, 07:39 PM
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It's exquisite, just as it is!
Great work.
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09-11-2002, 08:45 PM
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looks lots like a digitally altered photo...was that your source? I like that digi stuff is altering the way painters paint. do you grid these out, or do you have another technique for getting this type of digitized realism in your oils?
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09-11-2002, 09:47 PM
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This just jumps off the screen at me, Gareth; lovely!
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09-12-2002, 05:21 AM
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Thank you.
Debi - The white could be seen as slightly awkward I guess, but I was playing around, trying to bend the rules about dark denoting background, light for foreground. I like it how it is, though it was a struggle. I'll post a copy of it before I put the final glaze on the rose. I hated it then and didn't think it would ever come together.
Amy - The source was a digital photo that I took. I take lots of photographs, some I digitally enhance (like the black painting I posted last week) some I use as they are. I think these technologies are there to be embraced; a while ago any ditortions that I did would be squared up and put onto a manipulated grid, but you never know how it's going to turn out. With photoshop you can see where it's going.
I do square the images up, but only about 8 squares, I find that I can get enough information from that to start painting with some solid reference points, and just tweak it as I go moving things around until they look right. At about the second glaze I abandon the photograph altogether and concentrate on the thing as a painting, altering areas that I don't like, whatever is for the benefit of the painting as opposed to the image.
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09-12-2002, 05:23 AM
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Here's the picture (I hope).
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09-12-2002, 01:08 PM
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the weight of the green on the top is well balanced by the light in the bottom, I like that. the bud is an important anchor helping the symmetry (to asymmetry) of the centered bloom. If anything, I'd like to see the bud in stronger focus, more crisp since it's such a nice element. The lines from that bud going diagonally up to the right feel cartoonish in comparison to the realism of the bloom (seeing the photo I can see how this was the real case but it still makes me feel like I'd like that resolved either sitting back more, subdued, hue change, whatever...just a personal niggle with this piece only because the rest is smashing). That diagonal mimics the stem of leaves above the blossom and I enjoy the compositional dance they're having (the element, flow is good IMO). I've always really liked seeing your work, it's fantastic.
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09-12-2002, 01:25 PM
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Photo?
Thank you Zotma. I'm dead flattered that you enjoy my work. I didn't post for ages, 'cause I was busy moving house, dropping out of university and trying to get a studio up and running so it's nice that I wasn't forgotten.
But.... there's no photo on this post. There's two pictures of the same painting at different stages. The one at the top is finished and the one near the bottom is at the stage when I abandoned the photo and started paying more attention to the painting as a thing in itself.
You also seem to have a habit of spotting my personal niggles (remember the four leaves on my Big Rose), okay, so the bud could do with a slight alteration in it's hue, but I've already got the painting hanging in a shop, and you know how it is.....
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09-12-2002, 01:27 PM
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You know, looking at it again I don't think it's the bud that's the problem particularly, rather the twig that supports it, maybe if it were denser or more defined it would bring the bud more into a definate space rather than it's awkward limbo; what do you think?
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09-12-2002, 01:41 PM
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yes I think you're dead on. The stem would break side and give nice weight, that would do it. I do remember that other piece (delicious) that's why I figured it would be alright with you to share my thoughts on this one. I'll repeat; small small niggle to hugely fabulous piece overall but you knew that already I'm bettin .
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