Should I cut my ear off? - Page 2

"Good Will Hunting" is a great movie. Reminds me of certain smartasses I have come across in life, too. LOL. So many quotables in that movie!

Fine art is always about emotion or even, its denial.

Well, here you go, Bee. My son felt left out and wanted to paint. I did another one with him.

I am in love with your fearless approach to subject and how it is incorporated into a composition. This seems natural to you, and it creates a genuine sense of story about what is common in our human genre.

There are moments of a natural sophistication and also tell tale executions of a naive hand. All in all, it is intriquing as a successful painting. I will get to my impressions of this guitar player's story in my next post.

Coming soon.

"Cutting an ear off" didn´t help van Gogh - wouldn´t help you, too...

You're too late, Bee. Now you have another to critique! Lol. I'm done for a while!!!! Back to the guitar.

Susie, are you suggesting I cut something else off? Fingers would help.

Sorry Chaz! I am still foggy in the head from a sinus cold! Doesn't want to leave me just yet, either...

I will continue with my critique of your second painting in this trypych series, which obviously, it is now one! LOL Concerning the subject and what I feel for a story:

The subject, a male guitar player is absorbed with his playing or perhaps, finessing his chords. He sits on a recessed cement stoop, with his back to the closed black door of a brick building. The building is most likely his home. The window to the left is also blackened, and closed.

The bricks of the walls creates a pattern, but while in the first painting the pattern evoked feelings of domesticity, this brick pattern does the opposite. We are shut out and separated from the idea of home as our refuge, it has become an intolerable place. The figure seeks relief outside, on the stoop. Both the door and window are a solid forbidding black, we can't see in because of what was happy in the home, is not there. It is oppressive to be there where the loss is noticed the most.

We don't see his face because he isn't concerned with seeking an audience. He is only absorbed in finding the music, the music is the metaphor of that which is missing from inside the home.

The perspective being shown is deliberate and confident for the most part. It is only when you get to the outer sides, and the sidewalk does it get skewed. That lack of perfection however, doesn't bother me as much as it might others, because I can tell where your originality is genuine and unique, because of it.

That you attempt a figure and keep the form in proportion, and use shadows and draping of the clothes to give his form three dimensional space is to be commended for the ambition it shows. The minor flaws of techniques or drawing are overcome by the compositon, the subject and apparent confidence growing in its execution.

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No, Chaz, please, don´t cut any parts of your body off, even art is not worth it....

I simply assumed you know van Gogh, otherwise you wouldn´t talk about "cutting off ears", and show pictures of sunflowers - and I assumed you know he died too young, a genius, but caught in his fears.

"Cutting his ear off" didn´t help him in his fight against his personal demons ( and the Absinth ).

Susie, you're cute. I'm not cutting anything off, but do you know where I can score some of that Absinth?

Bee, 👍.

The funny thing, is that I didn't want to say anything until you commented. I originally wanted to make the building grey, dark and cold. But I couldn't. I'm working with a cheap walmart kit of paints and brushes. My daughter and i used up all the white and yellow on Friday. Saturday, when we went to but my son a canvas, i bought what I thought was white and yellow. The white was actually a gloss. That also could explain the concrete. I honestly didn't know it was paint until yesterday. I just thought it sucked!!!!!

You talk about minor flaws. Sometimes they're not. There is a glaring flaw in the middle of the lake, but it isn't a flaw. the whole lake itself is a flaw, but it isn't.

Forgot to add. Was going to put a wrought iron fence on the side walk for two reasons. Well, to hide the walk, and to add vulnerability.

Ahhhh.... I see it. I will comment on the final painting tomorrow. There is plenty to comment on! 👨🏼‍🎨

Real quick, though, your instincts are spot on! Picasso said something like, "...if I run out of blue paint, then I will use red! ". One of my favorite quotes. You just said the same thing, in your way! 👍🏻