Can I Get an Opinion??
OK---lately I've been going thru my artwork---and this has gnawed at me from the time I varnished it.
Many artists over time have had a go at this subject matter---and I wanted to be different and look from another angle as opposed to the traditional front view
Long story short---When I painted Christ---I was extremely focused
Now I 1st was going to put a fire in front of the cross and changed my mind at the last minute and went with Mary
To me it doesn't get there??
So here in the dregs of winter I'm considering shortening the painting (taking a knife and cutting Mary out---praying She forgives me)
Currently the ptg is 24x36---if I crop it it will knock it down to about 14 x36 (and I'm gonna lose some sky I was happy with)
What's your thoughts
Thanks
and what it would be after
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Instead of removing Mary, you should add a dinosaur roaring ferociously upon yonder mountain.
The fact that it is varnished removes me painting anything---otherwise I could Change Mary
and I would have thought you'd like a Bear??
Dinosaurs are cooler than bears. I imagine if there where Dino’s around, a lot more people than just Joe would stay away from my fishing spots.
I like it. But what are you trying to say with the painting?
The original, to me, paints a poignant picture of the very core of Christian belief. It all depends on what the artist is trying to portray.
For instance, the crucifixion on the right with people reveling on the left could point to every man's culpability or even how we have began to forget the sacrifice paid. I'd like to know what you want to portray.
Ugh. My wife (art teacher) is starting to rub off on me.
Thanks for your input Buff---and I have cut it and re-framed it already
I should have stuck with my 1st thought and put a fire there ---somewhat symbolic---think it showed--and it bugged me
What did I want to portray??---I was doing 2 things ---As you know I am a religious person but I don't preach at people----I was trying to show the suffering
Some other artists in the US thought I should do more sizzle and less steak---but that's where I went
And as mentioned this scene has been done since it happened by numerous painters---I just wanted to mark my spot in time
All the best to your art teacher wife
here's how it turned out
Wait, I thought we agreed on a magnificent dinosaur— where is it?
Something like this for a future commission for Mike?
Sorry Mike---best I can do for ya is this one
There's a lake up here that reportedly had a monster
1n the 70's an LA news channel even reported it and went there
It was along the Voyageur trail---thus the canoe
This painting went on the local postcards for the area
Some of the wife's work
Ginger mermaids aren't real.
Those are Great Buff
Glad to see your wife touch on the Surreal Mermaid
Those are the most fun
I can tell this is a Canadian drawing as the fella is running away rather than shooting it. Here in Merka our first instinct would be open fire.
I fished that lake---10 miles long and 300 feet deep at it's most
I remembered I painted a dino work for a Childrens hospital some time back---I just gotta find the file??
How did I miss your wife is an art teacher. Mom was an art teacher.
Crooow:This music would work better with women in bikinis shaking all over the place. I guess that's true of any music really.
She doesn't post to facebook much. She's done some commission work the last couple of years. Finally getting some use out of the old bag.
Mike, I like your painting. Both of them, with Mary and without. They both tell a story.
Think Mike just Duz Dinosaurs
Thanks tho---we're only at 1 ptg ---I cut that canvas out this aft---it was never 2 ptgs
Yeah, I understand.
Where is the unicorn?
OK Mike----found er
And I spent all this time looking because you have left all your fishin spots and bear deterrent to me in your Will
And your apparent fondness for dinos
This was one I did some years back for the Children's hospital---Called it "Optimism"
Haha...that is awesome!
This is the greatest painting I have ever seen. Is there any way I could get a print of it?
Thanks---and because so many of us joke here---not sure if your kidding?? (it's all good if you are)
But if your serious----what type of printer do you have? (photo printer?)
Reason being (and you'd have to give me a little time)---I possibly could get a High Resolution image of it and e-mail it to you---and you could print it out yourself----free gratis (Stupid Christians
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Then you go down to Wal Mart---buy a frame like this for 20 bucks---done
This was a photo print on gloss stock---Wally frame
Lol---was siftin thru old files lookin for stuff---found this from a while back
Must have been in my Chardonnay Period---called this one Extra terrestrial (note water wings lol)
Is that a noose around it's neck? :)
Yeah....figured be better gettin drug by the neck than a ring thru the nose
feel sorry for the l'il B- ugger------ya know.....Bein food and all