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Published: 2006-10-06 17:13:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 1572; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 17
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Been a while since I submitted something, so I wanted to share an oil painting I did in a complimentary colour practice..My first real painting using oils (or traditional media aswell) Had some colour experiments before but thats about it. So be kind and give me some tips
Its a selfportrait.. Im pretty happy about how it turned out. Kind of a Che Guevara meets Andy Warhol iconportrait look to it, ehm, you gotta have some self irony when making a portrait?
The colours gives me some ying yang feel to the personality here. Very funny to turn off the light and look at it, because the reds dissapear and only the green face glows for a few seconds. But that only works in real life
Photocopying an oil isn't easy.. you never get the right "feel" to it this way I think. Well, interesting and frustrating medium I think. Hope you like!
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3 hours
3 colours
A3 canvas
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Nice raw dynamic feel to it...Did you apply the paint with the palette knife?
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thanks. no I only had brushes
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Nice brushwork then...
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that's so expressionistic!the character hmm i like it.....
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thank
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Very nice, looking forward to see the original!
Like the paint-strokes in the hair and around it. Gives a feeling of wind and movement. Maybe a bit rain too...
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I can't give tips, I know bugger all about painting but I can be kind. It's seriously cool. 
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Not a very artistic observation though is it. Sorry, I just like the piece, it's really dramatic and quite powerful.
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I like the paint application. I kinda wished you had some more difinite light source and some more values. do you have the Itten color scheme book? they tell you how much of the pure hues you should have.
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gotta try read some of that
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I love the look of it and you did all of the right things: Red comes to the front and you used yellow as the receding colour! Great use of 3 colours!
I love water based *oil* paints! No mess and no fuss, but it has been pointed out that they are harder to mix and get the subtle tones that *real* oil paints do.
You have shown your great gift with this one. I am anxious to see more!
Good work, Dear!!
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Yes! Oils rock. You've a very natural talent for the style, too. Go with it.
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damn oils... you don't seem to have that problem with them, O would love to see more pieces in oils by you.
(I owe you my pastels photos... I'm taking them tonight)
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thank you. looking forward to that
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actually its very good.
nice technique.
and frustrating, yes. I remember doing my first oils... what a mess.
a tip would be: never use too much turpentine.
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thank you. for this I used water mixables.. so I don't have to bath in turpentine
They are a little bit more expensive than regular oil paint, but nice as a start out perhaps.
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hmm. they have their pros and contras... of course, no turpentine, no smell at all.
but they behave differently on canvas and they are totally crappy on wood. that's why I don't use them.
but for starters, I guess, they're okay.
and they're not more expensive than the traditional ones: you need to count in the lineoil and turpentine waste, that would make these plus chère.
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I really like it! I definately saw the whole "Che Guevara meets Andy Warhol" when I first looked at it. I can't give you any tips though... I have never been a painter. Practice makes perfect, perhaps?
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practice never makes perfect, but better?
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Yeah.... but then again, no artist is ever perfect. And art is about the individual and style too. Some stuff I think is the worst piece of crap others will find fantastic. Interpretation maybe? So yeah... practice makes more experianced which makes better, but never perfect.
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well it makes me thinkk of the movie Waking Life & I like the psychodelic feel to it.
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