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Published: 2007-12-20 14:46:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 10904; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 0
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Berol colored pencils on Strathmore recycled white paper, 18 x 24.* “Bummer In The Summer” is based entirely on the original oil painting “Summer Evening” by Edward Hopper, 1947.
* From the Lonely Girl: A Tribute To Edward Hopper series
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I've noticed this male figure in several other of your works, is that you by any chance?
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Yes, this is indeed me. However, I made myself a little buffer than I really am.
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Haha. Lol. I would never be able to tell. I've only seen your da photo, but in you're drawings, may I just say you look devilishly handsome.
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Oh, yeah -- that's just the drawings! Us artists have a sneaky way of making ourselves a bit more, shall we say, beautiful in our renderings.
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Nice woek, love her in the bikini. Do you draw requests?
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Thank you very much!
I do draw requests, but, unfortunately, not at the moment due to a hectic schedule.
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Can I tell you it and when your schedule cools off, can you draw it?
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For sure! Unfortunately, I'm not so sure when that time will be.
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If you're to busy. It can wait till another day.
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Hopper definitely had this odd sexual underside to some of his paintings. You are doing sort of PASTICHES of his works and I find it very interesting and fun.
I don't see the girl so much as a prostitute, but maybe a woman of easy virtue, and the element of the dark skinned suitor gives it sort of a taboo quality. Obviously these days mixed race couples are no big deal, but the images you are referencing in your drawings are of another time when it would have been considered scandalous.
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Yep, you read into my work very well, my friend. The taboos of mixed race coupling is exactly what I was trying to convey here, and in most of the series by keeping that old time Hopper feel. I did not do that with "Nancy, Let Your Hair Down For me," [link] I tried to modernize it, which in a way does not quite work for what I was trying to convey. Oh, well.
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Some of the modernizations you attempted in some of the images, don't quite work so well for me. The MAC computer on the desktop kind of 'dates' the image much MORE than even the original with the period phone and typewriter, I think. Also when you have the women look directly at the viewer, and you sex them up just a little too much(in my opinion)then the piece is not so successful. But you have TWO in particular that I think are very successful.
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Yep. I totally agree. Looking back now, I do remember that this one was the very first one completed for the series. I had yet to figure out where I wanted to take the series. I just knew that i wanted to give Hopper a tribute for his 40th anniversary of his passing. If I could do it all over again, I would definitely keep the old timey feeling, tone the girl down a bit and get rid of that Mac! Hahahahaha.
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It was a great exercise though. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I can clearly see that your skills really did improve as the series progressed.
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Hahahahahaha...yeah, so you can tell the early ones now from the later ones.
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Well, I don't know what E.Hopper would say about your drawings, but to me the value of his works was not showing prostitute-like women. What do you think?
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I would THINK that the value Of Mr.. Hopper's works did show prostitutes or whatever the viewer would like to imagine his women to be. That's what art does.
You see, you have to remember the times back then. Daisy Dukes and really short skirts were not invented then, if they were, I am sure Mr. Hopper would have had his girls in them. For instance in "South Carolina Morning" [link] this outfit on this lady might have been consider "prostitute like" as you call it.
Now as for my series, I explained here [link] that I was taking Hopper's work to another level. MY LEVEL. I could have EASILY sat there and copied Hopper's work stroke for stroke and vision for vision to please people like you, but really what good it that? So instead, I decided to please myself and people who can appreciate originality, so i decided to give it my own personal touch and I'd like to think that Mr. Hopper would have appreciated that.
Be seeing you.
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Great picture, I like your style. It has some classic beauty that is hard to put in words. 
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Thanks! Sorry for the long delay in response. When they switched the system, I lost a lot of favs and comments. Yours was one them. Thankfully I was strolling around in my gallery and noticed that I had not commented back on this.
Anyway, I enjoyed reading your story. And if I were not so swamped right now with side projects, etc. I would love to illustrate it. However, my next series (untitled as of yet) is based somewhat around witches, castles, dragons, cathedrals, etc. So if you like, if they work, you can use or post any of them you wish as a picture to go with your wonderful story.
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Remember when i first saw the original in my Art History class back in high school.. and later as we discus it in the art academy.. it strike me again now in your version...that non connection atmosphere between those tow...talking abut nothing.. and not knowing what they really doing there together...just summer thing...
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Totally. That's what I always loved about the original. It says so much, yet so little.
Thanks so much for the wonderful comment!
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Ho... you are most welcome dear!!!And the Much/little things.. are the most exciting excited in any part of life...
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Oh thank you much! 
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Something tells me the guy isn't going to get the girl
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Yep. Look like she's got her mind made up for sure. Pour fella.
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yeah, no wonder it's a Bummer in the Summer lol. Anyway, nice job
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Really pretty. ^-^ I like the hair of the girl much.
Claudia
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Thanks, Claudia! 
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the atmosphere reminds me of eduard hopper
[link] ! wel done!
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Hahaha...it's nice to know that you felt the presence of Hopper's atmosphere before you knew it was a Hopper rip-off! LOL.
Thanks, again, Hanna!
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yeah...thats mean you did well what you intended to do...
i have not read what you wrote, only at the second piece. because then i started to wonder about your style.hehe...
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man i like your art because you not only focus on the people but you do excellent backgrounds
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Thanks so much for saying so--but I think i need to improve on background work more.
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Nice one. Love the Hopper reference. I was just at the Art Institute of Chicago and saw his "Nighthawks." Brilliant artist, that Hopper. . .
You're not too shabby either mate!
DC
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Yeah, his stuff live is like no other.
Thank you very much!!!
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i truly see nothing to be bummed out about unless....she wouldn't let you in.
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I think that just might be the case here! LOL.
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Again DAvis...your skill preceeds you. You can always tell what part of the picture the artist was truly interested in capturing. Such lovely shading and detail on the gal
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Hahahaha...goooood eye, my friend. Either that, or they were tired and didn't want to put the effort into finishing the rest, hint, hint.
Thanks, again!
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