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Post by Fire Monkey on Feb 26, 2011 0:45:48 GMT -6
C:\Documents and Settings\Timothy Emil Birch\My Documents\Art Gallery\TheRoom.jpg[/img] Another picture I thought might inspire a poem - this one with a darker feel, a picture of loneliness. Attachments:
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Post by Brigid Briton on Feb 26, 2011 20:33:02 GMT -6
This reminds me of my own room, only cleaner! Nice job, firemonkey!
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Post by Fire Monkey on Feb 27, 2011 0:35:44 GMT -6
Thanks - it took me a long time to be able to draw people with any success - a room, sure, because it's a fairly geometric thing but people took me years. I hope your room is less lonely than this one even if it's more messy
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Post by eiken on Mar 15, 2011 12:54:33 GMT -6
Beautiful photo, quite sad, it reminds me of Van Gogh's room and his life was so tragic too.
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 15, 2011 14:58:44 GMT -6
Thanks, Eiken, I painted that one 7 years ago when I was first including people in my pictures. Before that I mostly draw landscapes rather than people.
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Post by Brigid Briton on Mar 15, 2011 15:53:45 GMT -6
Tim, I think you should explain that you "paint" with a computer mouse rather than with a brush, a feat I can't even begin to contemplate! You are a patient man! (Not to mention talented!) Brigid
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 15, 2011 16:55:15 GMT -6
It's true, my art is done with a mouse - oddly, when i paint with a brush or I pick up a pencil or pen to draw, it never turns out well. I draw with an optical cordless mouse. I tried using an art tablet but found I just can't do much with it - a mouse is my paint brush. I draw the pictures about 3 to 4 times as big as they end up, that way I can get fine details and then I shrink them to the size I want.
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Post by Callisse J. DeTerre on Mar 26, 2011 22:43:27 GMT -6
I can see from this earlier image that you've grown quite a bit as an artist, particularly in your handling of perspective and tonal balance. Keep it up. I like the red glow. By the way, do you see the room as lonely because of it's starkness? I don't think it automatically evokes that emotion.
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Post by Fire Monkey on Mar 27, 2011 12:47:01 GMT -6
In part it is the starkness that feels lonely to me but not exactly since simply a stark room could evoke many emotions, in part it is the lighting also and in part it is the figure himself - sort of hunched a bit with a cigarette sort of hanging in his hand and a drink [maybe coffee - maybe whiskey] held again loosely in the other hand. It's sort of all the elements together.
I have been told the man looks like a "rock'em sock'em robot", if you have ever seen that old toy - he did turn out rather stiff and angular ;D
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