Should I cut my ear off? - Page 4

Ok, Bee. Here's a new one to ponder in your spare time. Lol.

Here is my painting of Roger Goodell. I painted the nose only. How did I do? I need some professional opinions.

Looks good. He'd be happy to wear that all the way to the bank. Makes 50+ million a year. Next time, paint a sad frown on him. And give him a damn oversized tie!!!

LOL@Mountain Lion.... Chaz makes some excellent points in his critique. I think he's after my job as art critic! 🤡

 

CHAZ! Your artistic growth is exponential! I am really proud of how you have been tackling the prespective thing. Your sense for composition is wonderful in form and feeling. You aren't copying from anything... are you? Using (photo) resources is fine within the painting design and I deem it as acceptable, but I just want you to clarify that the arrangement is all yours, correct? Or, if this is all from memory, I should think you must embark on a new artistic career, immediately! I will be your agent.

LOL OMG... yes, it will be fun to ponder this subject, I am looking forward to it. I have a busy day laid out for me though, it is a swim meet day, and I seem to be one of the few mom's who always end up being the ones to help out the team. Still figuring out how many of those hats I will be required to wear, today!

I like to ponder best within my first impressions, so I won't dwell on the subject just now, but I am impressed, once again. I hope not to take too long for a story!

 

Maybe Suzie will drop by with her 2 cents? Since she knows all about the art business. It would be fun to have an art gallery owner's professional POV!

Nope, my painting, but I did steal the green and white train from a photo. ;) take your time. Have fun at the swim meet.

I'm sure, if haven't already noticed, you'll see there are more+ intentional flaws.

Ok! Where to begin? lol I guess, my general impressions and description will be a good place.

We are at a city train station where two trains are stopped. One train is reflected in the windows of the other. A man is sitting on a bench with his back to us, waiting with his guitar case in hand. He appears to be interested in the woman with long brown hair, talking to the conductor, I think, that is who the third figure is? Is she getting on the train? He clutches his guitar case with I feel, the sense of anticipation and anxiety. He is waiting for something to change before he acts. Is he about to stand and leave? Does he want to approach the woman who we aren't sure has even seen him? There is a decision that needs to be made.

The central island waiting area shows a single point perspective in play, creating an almost infinite distance to be traveled. It is well executed and correct until we get to the part adjacent and past the stairwell to the subway. It is then, impossibly descending, while the right side is gradually ascending to a much greater distance before its cresting on hill, in a subtle Escher-esque bending of the perspective planes.

The "green" train has an incomplete treatment with the green stripe where there seems to areas of white wash. The shadows are not consistent with a single light source. The yellow and black, candy-cane striped warning post and the top edge of the trash recepticle meet in dead center of the composition. A literally figurative warning that is hard to ignore. Perhaps it is the inconsistencies and incompletenesses that we see in the painting are mirroring the feelings of the man's questions. Will they continue being unanswered, as that makes the guitar holder keep on waiting, but the longer he waits, the idea of waste becomes more clearly, truth.

I can't ignore the numerology references, either, in the signage for the subway. The very large arrow directs to 2nd Avenue beneath the large 13, the number designation of the train stop. "Two is the symbol of union and peace between two entities", harmonious, and relating also to the yin, and its feminine qualities. The powerful number 13 signifies upheaval, a life change that is in store. The signage is hard for us to ignore, but will its message of karma be ignored?

Two trains, different directions. Incomplete actions and confusing directions are needing clarity. The warning is there. The consquences of a decision have already arrived, it just needs a direction to be acted upon.

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Not bad!

Just some of the things you missed, because I can't tell you everything. Lol

Avenue comes from French. Attempt or loosely, chance. We use it also besides for a street.

You mentioned shadows. If it was night, it is understood that shadows can be different depending on all light locations, but not from the sun. Pay more attention to the shadows on the concrete.

Look closer at the 2nd avenue sign. It isn't really over the stairs. Look at the post it is on. The sign is actually over the big void in the picture.

The post and that building slightly lean in opposite directions making you feel pulled in different directions, unbalanced, uneasy.

The right side "guard" rail is missing. There is a post, but no rail, otherwise the green would go up 3/4 up the yellow sign.

Cant remember the rest, but the shadows are a huge thing

forgot to add, he isn't concerned about the brunette. she is just any random person boarding a train.

It is not apparent that this is a night scene to me because you have clouds in a light blue sky. I mentioned that the shadows do not correspond to a single (sun) source, so not sure that I missed that intentionality. There is no lamplight that I can tell, either. I know they don't make sense, just don't know what makes them that way.

There are slight perspective issues due to the process of photographing the image that make some of your more subtle imagery or "what's wrong with this picture" omissions, hard to decipher with purpose or intention. As a viewer, I can't be expected to know some of the details of safety and zoning that someone does, who makes their living in construction. Still not sure what you are describing with the guardrail?

It is all part of the artist's decisions in art making that some things are meant to be found, others hoped for, and sometimes others will depend on the viewer.

What of the emotional responses, where are those going off track?

But he is still waiting for someone important to him. We aren't sure if they are even on that train, but it would seem he had some expectation.