If any of you have art inside, you need to watch this. Great interview with William Defoe. However, 10min into this, he perfectly describes what I've been trying to learn for 30 years. Oddly, I was personally told this same advice by another Vincent (Price) about my work but it took me years to understand what he was trying to tell me. Ironic no?
My wife paints great birch trees (although yours could be cherry, both the same paint-wise) but she's always complaining about how hard they are to do. She's nearly finished with a painting of the New River Palisades in Virginia (her great great great grandfather used to own the property they are on); it's a late fall scene and there are a ton of birch's in it.
Yours look a lot like hers used to until she got really good at them...i.e., kind of flat/two-dimensional...she had the same issue. Believe me, I'm not an artist in the least, but my wife is pretty accomplished and I watch her...I would keep plugging along with it because like her, once you get it right you can apply that knowledge to other pictures and it will help a lot.
This is the Palisades on the New River...her picture is different--she took hers herself, but it gives you an idea of what she's painting.
@Londy3 I can understand the confusion. What I was trying to say was, you can't help but create excellence. I guess I'm rubbing out of adjectives to describe your art.
So much has changed in the art world. I just wonder if art like this is appreciated like it used to be long ago or if it's futile. I mean the amazing compliment from @opipeman about my piece that, "it should be in a museum" is incredible. But do people really care about this old school approach using traditional paint, real brushes, stretched canvas and an idea? Now, with so much digital art, apps, photos, filters, editing software and now AI getting in on it, it makes creating "art" easy for anyone or any robot to do. Kinda cheapens it. Like something made in China.
Over the years I've learned to like why I like certain things and not to give in to the "newer" more improved version of the same or the next shiny thing. For example, my iron cookware. This had already been time tested and proven. I'm not replacing this with the newest non-stick coating that is likely not good for you anyway. Seems more and more things are artificial, temporary, and short lived.
Conversely, there are classic works of art in museums around the world for all to see and learn from. Works that are hundreds of years old, are still amazing today and have stories to tell. Do you think digital art will last that long? Will they marvel or will they say, yeah I remember that's how it was done but now with version 4.0 it's so much better, and move along.
That's one reason I smoke a pipe. It's hands on, old school and just as good now as it has been for centuries. Even the pipes are still hand carved. I just wonder what people think today living in a disposable world where everything is cheaply mass produced and made to wear out or break.
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Very Nice.
Now framed
Thank you so much sir. Much appreciated!!
Damn your'e good.
Thanks so much man!!! Really appreciate it
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They look like Dracaena stalks?
Or.... you could add something to it. Wildlife, maybe?
Yours look a lot like hers used to until she got really good at them...i.e., kind of flat/two-dimensional...she had the same issue. Believe me, I'm not an artist in the least, but my wife is pretty accomplished and I watch her...I would keep plugging along with it because like her, once you get it right you can apply that knowledge to other pictures and it will help a lot.
This is the Palisades on the New River...her picture is different--she took hers herself, but it gives you an idea of what she's painting.
This is acrylic on canvas
NICE...
You just can't help it, Brother
What do you mean
Thanks a lot man. Greatly appreciate it!
I can understand the confusion. What I was trying to say was, you can't help but create excellence. I guess I'm rubbing out of adjectives to describe your art.
That should be in a museum!
Thanks so much!!
So much has changed in the art world.
I just wonder if art like this is appreciated like it used to be long ago or if it's futile. I mean the amazing compliment from @opipeman about my piece that, "it should be in a museum" is incredible. But do people really care about this old school approach using traditional paint, real brushes, stretched canvas and an idea? Now, with so much digital art, apps, photos, filters, editing software and now AI getting in on it, it makes creating "art" easy for anyone or any robot to do. Kinda cheapens it. Like something made in China.
Over the years I've learned to like why I like certain things and not to give in to the "newer" more improved version of the same or the next shiny thing. For example, my iron cookware. This had already been time tested and proven. I'm not replacing this with the newest non-stick coating that is likely not good for you anyway. Seems more and more things are artificial, temporary, and short lived.
Conversely, there are classic works of art in museums around the world for all to see and learn from. Works that are hundreds of years old, are still amazing today and have stories to tell. Do you think digital art will last that long? Will they marvel or will they say, yeah I remember that's how it was done but now with version 4.0 it's so much better, and move along.
That's one reason I smoke a pipe. It's hands on, old school and just as good now as it has been for centuries. Even the pipes are still hand carved. I just wonder what people think today living in a disposable world where everything is cheaply mass produced and made to wear out or break.
Is there still a place for old school art?