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A personal canvas work (first I've done in years).This started out as a self-portrait with a mandolin, but a number of the distinct features would have distracted from the lines (long neck, glasses, beard and hair (and a lot of the latter two)). In the end, the mandolin, hat and purple jacket are mine, but the face isn't.
For mandolin fans the chord is F7, and the mandolin is a Flat-iron, A-Type by Amada/Cremona of Luby, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic) which I've had for... a few years. Originally the figure was going to be picking out a tune, but the instrument in question is better suited to chords (I've a Florian M30 or an Ozark 2243 Bouzouki for picking out a tune).
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Cubism of Braque G ..... combined with the poetry of Chagall ... or DELAUNAY
nice work
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Because you are someone well bred .....
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Acrylic.
Mostly straight from the tube onto a pallet knife, and mixed on the canvas.
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Really nice painting. Love the lines an colours.
I am honored that you added one of my pictures to your favorites
(.. or that anyone would on this site 
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You're welcome. I looked at "Angel on the Wall" and went "that looks really familiar", unfortunately I also can't remember why.
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Too bad 
Years later I found it on my computer, printed it and put it on my wall.
Years after that my friend (on my picture) asked me if she could get a copy but I had lost the digital image and said that I could make one of her instead.
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Fine work. I love thick paint work, and I only wish I could see this in real life. Have you considered selling this? Not that I could afford it. I'm a professional photographer which means I probably have as much spare cash as a nun, but in my laypersons mind I would have thought this was sellable - if you wanted to of course!
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I've considered it, but I want to finish the series first and the third hit a creative buffer about a year back and I've not managed to get it beyond a background and an idea for the instrument, and the colour of the musician's hair. mandolin spent three years in development hell before I put pallet knife to canvas, so we'll see.
As for seeing it, if you're ever coming up to central Scotland drop me a PM.
And as a professional photographer you probably earn more than I do, the only thing I get paid for regularly is selling books... part time...
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Well you can't rush good art! I hadn't twigged that it's part of a series, but I assume The Guitar is part of it.
I don't get up to Scotland much (only been twice in 42 years) but if I'm ever that way, it would be good to see your work first hand.
It could be a close call on the income. You'd be surprised at what damage the rise of digital and the internet has done to professional photography. It's why I'm here farting about on dA instead of going out shooting real photos. I'll accept though that selling books part time is certainly paying less most of the time.
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yeah, I have to admit that of the professional photographers I know only one's got a stable enough income to have a mortgage (and that's through selling postcards and calendars), the other lives in a slum (the flat downstairs had its living room ceiling fold down into the room earlier this year...).
and as for the not making it to Scotland, I've never made it to the west country...
and finally, yes, Guitar is the next (and still needs some work).
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Sounds about right. By comparison, I'm a raging success then, but I see Annie Liebowitcz is massively in debt... she doesn't live in a hole in the ground though
Well you are in Scotland. Why would you come to England? It's full of bloody English people!
Looking forward to the final installment!
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not a fan of the English then? Admittedly neither's my father, who emigrated from England to Ireland at 18...
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Oh I don't know. Nothing specific, I just think that there's too much "nastiness for nastiness sake" in English society now. It's not everyone, but it doesn't need to be in order to be noticeable.
Mind you, I'm half German, so pick out of that what you will
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Just finished re-reading Billy Bragg's "The Progressive Patriot: A Search for Belonging", which looks at the attempt to be English without being racist or exclusive. As an Irishman from the North, living in Scotland, I can tell you that it's not just the English that can be like that, that same nastiness is what kept the Troubles going for 30-something years and maintains the resentment today, to the point that in Glasgow a lot of people will lock their doors and hide inside when Rangers and Celtic play.
With my mother being of old Irish descent, if "Black Irish" (i.e. with some Iberian ancestry), and my father being a "Black Bastard" (an English Protestant), even if one of mixed Irish, English and Belgian descent, it was a fun up-bringing when both sides hate the English, one hates the Catholics, Irish and Spanish, and the other hates the Protestants, for reasons few actually understand any more...
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And I thought I had it bad growing up being called Hitler and the like for being half German...
I must look out that book too. How does it end?
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It doesn't really... it's simple, straight-forward polemic arguing that the English have never been a single people.
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I was kidding of course... still, must look it up. Mein Kampf you say it's called? Sorry, kidding again.
The English are the perfect mongrel race! Oh, I shouldn't say that too loud in certain towns and cities...
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I love this...the colors just pop out in the grandest way. It's got such a happy tone to it. Great work..
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thanks.
It's actually interesting in ways that aren't visible in the photo. The piece was done without brushes (pallette knives and fingernails), giving it some interesting textures (especially as it hangs under an up-lighter, getting very interesting light cutting straight down its surface).
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Really? Wow..I knew it didn't look quite like any painting I've seen. I guess that's why it attracted my attention so quickly. It really is an unusual...yet lovely piece, possibly one my favorites I've discovered on this site. You're quite talented.
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thanks.
It was the first time I got to let my Cubist side out since Art at school, when I did a piece on board that was 180x150cm. While I did use brushes, that was as much because the background was made of a collage of papier mache, glued down newspaper and tissue paper and chunks of textured paint and sand... [link] , but there I was restrained by the brief (hence the comic-book style elements etc...
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Ahh...well I took a gander, and I was thoroughly impressed again. You have a very unique way of creating things...it's quite inspiring to see.
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that reminds me alot of Julian Bream in old age
[link]
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Thanks,
I can't play anywhere near that well. And the Amada's a chord mandolin rather than a melody (the strings are too close together), for melody I've an entirely separate instrument. Perhaps in my old age, but not now...
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i like it very much , reminds Van Kong ( i didnt write it correct i think.. but you know ) ,the colors are tied very well altogether .. sorry for my english
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nice woorkk...
kinda jealous, because myhand-drawing is really sucks..
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So does mine at the moment... Broke my writing/drawing arm in March but I'm getting use back into it slowly. I've been largely working in digital or with pallette knives (as here) in the meantime, as they provide fewer noticeable differences depending on hand (whereas pencil work with my left hand has a very definite touch of the early to mid-90s (when I broke that arm and started using my right hand almost exclusively))...
to see what I mean, look at the stuff for Time of Tribes, where the higher the number, the more recent the piece. The earlier ToT pieces (1, 2, 3 and 5) were done left-handed, piece 4 was done crossing (as my right arm was useable but very tender), while the later pieces were done right handed, as I got proper use of my hand back. The four done left handed were done thus because the deadline came up fast, and I'd just started work (with three weeks to go) when I fell...
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woow..
dude, you really such an artist.It's really awesome to hear your struggle for art..
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Remenisant of Lucio Ranucci, I like your choice of palette especially.
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Not a direct influence, the style is actually more directly derived from Mondrian than Ranucci... it's a very strange inspiration for a figurative piece, but the compositions are the true predecessors of this piece...
Thanks...
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oh i see, [link] that was the painting it brought to mind.
Well i love yours, id even hang that on my wall.
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yeah, I can see some of the similarities... currently the canvas is hanging on the mount for a now defunct phone until I get the rest of the series finished (I've hit a rut with the third).
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Well, I'm not much into paintings but was immediately drawn into this. It reminds me of one of those old latin European cobbled streets with a local playing a folk song.
Brilliant work.
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thank you... until March I ran a bookshop across the road from just such a street... the accordion player that seemed to play insistently seems to have followed me and now seems to play the same tune at the tea house on the road across the road from home...
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You're welcome. And, that's kind of interesting.
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I just love this work man,great painting style.
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This is so wonderful,you are very welcome man
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This is one of those paintings i find i wish i did.
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