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Published: 2003-11-06 04:24:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1845; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 534
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oil on canvas using only burnt umber (paint color - not actual flaming shit...)i started painting this with brushes but in the end ended up using my hands and fingers because the brush strokes were annoying me - i guess it's kind of a perverse finger painting....
inspired by an album cover but for some odd reason i could never remember the album cover or the band - but the image always stuck in my head...
the photo doesn't do it justice - i always hate photos of paintings. actual size of painting is 20" X 24". full view recomended.
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i love the smoothness of the skull or head, and the simpicity of the idea and but the strange atmosphere it creates
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It saddens me...gives me a feeling of desperation, maybe a loss of hope. Stirs sumthin up. i really enjoyed this one!
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i love it. reminds me of some tool stuff...like adam jones or alex grey. i love it...and i love the minimal use of color...and the heavy use of black and shadows. it made me laugh whe you said the brush strokes were annoying you. thats something about paintings that i find...how do i say...well...it pisses me off. when i can see the strokes it doesnt look real to me. and i know that its a style and sometimes its not supposed to look real...but when i see the strokes of the brush its not a seemless idea...*shrug* my ADD just cant keep up with it.
anyways i love it...i love your style...
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i can sympathize with the hatred. they never do my paintings justice, but I try. anyhoo, i like this. reminds me of TOOL, the band, not the...tool.
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i dont know why ... but i like it very much... the head shape with the missing face .. its simplified mysterius.. the body looks old outcast a shadowkinda person ... i really like it
fingerpainting is far more expressiv (the way i see it) good work
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wow. im impressed. i was reading all the comments. your third?? painting. i would have never been able to tell. this is very beautiful.
do you mind if i print it out and put it on my wall?
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hmmmm, your right, it does look a lot like my painting, more monochromatic though. I dunno, I find this one a bit more daunting and creepy than mine, perhaps its the dark back ground. *shrug* oh well
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Sometimes fingers are better than brushes . Nice work
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whoa... you are an amazing painter. I wish I had more to say than "whoa" but alas I am left speechless and must resort to talking like a guy out of one of those 80's surfer dude movies.
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thanks - i dont really paint much cause i think i suck but i love it - so relaxing...
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Yeah, I love the way painting totally chills me out.... I totally stink at it , but it relaxes nonetheless.
But you are an incredible painter, so can the modesty!
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A little creepy, but a really cool effect. Finger painting, eh? Hmm
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when i look at this i feel so many mixed up emotion's,wonderful art.
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I enjoy how seamlessly the body blends in with the dark... Great composition.
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lol...were you actually IN class? *wonders what the 'teach' thought of finger painting? It's very interesting..it seems to be becoming out of the darkness..like morphing from it..anyways ..pretty cool looking chicka
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eery to the point it makes me hard
awesome
cheers
~l
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right on.... this is very well done.... dark ... gotta love dark...
i think useing your fingers is what made this look the way it does... it really works for the painting
i especialy like the blury/muccky look of the body... it really makes it seem as if the head is coming too you from out of a giant thing of vasaline... ( i dun know)
tol ya i would comment..... iam just slow
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huuh?,
i love fingerpaintings, especially, those evil looking ones
just kidding, lovely tones, and this is a great canvas piece,really...
+fave
cya
fant
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beautiful. i love the warm, organic colors. the texture around the arms and the head is just delicious. good job.
*your description has me chuckling for some reason. lol. cheers.
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wo w- this is simply amazing. i love the tones and the way the figure softly emerges from the darkness....
amazing work!
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"your use of color is fabou - the tonal value is simply amazing" "wow amazing texture - you are getting really good at this!" "i love this - just one suggestion - add shadows to give it some depth" "ok now im bored" - I am such a smart ass k.
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i wouldnt, i wouldnt even touch it. this style has been used and abused far too many times. but if it were me, being that it is a digital image now why not add something digital. imo it needs red. maybe just some straight lines cutting through the background to fight with the darkness and, well let me stop im a digi artist, your a painter. im sure you want a good job nice work so ill satisfy and give it to you. gj nw
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its the third painting i ever did - for a class. the project was to use all one color and be able to show value with that one color.
i considered doing something digital with it but why? not everything needs to be messed with digitally - not every movie needs to be colorized.
no need to say good job as frankly i could care less about being pattted on the head - i thought you were a painter that could add something of value when you said you didnt like it. my bad.
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really? how would you change it?
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Nice work.. Anyway the subject reminds me something like crucifiction...
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Reminds me of somethin' out of a Tool video. I like it; interesting style, kinda like finger painting
"I want to spawn epiphanies in every generation."
~harlequin02~
Have something to say? Publish a book; I did
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Awesome, very nice. Love it. Reminds me of like the mothman or somethin, lol
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*.* wow, this looks really fantastic!!!
I like the contrasts and the shadings! well done!!!
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wow what a supurb painting and a interesting technique 
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my noir is but a darkend lover of fingers in silky paint.
i long to see you do this with my toes.
rofl....
like ka-os said..you never cease to amaze.!!
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I want this on my wall.
( not so subtle hint at a print demand here )
You have me wanting to go buy a pack of finger paints now, damn you.
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Shel, you are the master of understatement.....
Maybe I'm totally off,
but I sense a prisoner,
stripped of all that makes him who he is...
despairing of ever regaining all he has lost...
I bow in awe...
love ya
Connie
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That is really beautiful. Like an image in your head that you can't describe. I love painting with my fingers, it's even so bad that I rather use my fingers and hands instead of brushes. It's easier, faster and the whole thing gets so...smooth...So keep using your fingers
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Gorgeous! The way it emerges from the darkness-- almost looming over you-- just fabulous
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Well that looks pretty darn fine for a photo of it, i can only imagine how the real full size version would look, did a great job!
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i KNEW that was oil when i first saw it.. now i know i was right
i LOVE this painting.. its creepy, dark, lovely, and oddly welcoming... and you painted it with your fingers huh? thats cool.. i do color tests with my fingers when im oil painting, but end up with a brush in hand for the final.
fantastic work here.. its going in my favs
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So nice! Yes, finger painting worked perfectly!!!
I do it myself sometimes. It's also fun.
Great piece! I love it! The luminosity is perfect.
Yeah! You're right about the photos. They ruin the textures and the colours of this paintings. Anyway, this one looks pretty good.
Glad I have you on my devwatch now.
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ItΒ΄s beautiful, very dark, and sad.
IΒ΄ve been wanting to make some sort of Death caracter, something sort of like that, but gave up. But you made it, wonderfully.
Well, to my opinion thatΒ΄s what Death looks like
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I love it,.....................it's an Amazing image
...fills my head with wonder 
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