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Published: 2005-01-03 06:21:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1087; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 170
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"Changes Befitting the Rational Man."I know this probably seems like a Scrap.
It is not.
It is the way I wanted it.
I was interested in an image that made reference to sketches, x-ray revealed under paintings (Picasso's "Rue de Montmarte for example) and thatwonderful, semi-opaque quality of wax paper. I find it fascinating that artists like Picasso used elements of early paintings to build upon for new works, just as we are using, and reusing works to make new ones... all of which are formed upon layers of the past and the literal layer system of software.
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this is so awesome.. i like the dark style on it.. really cool
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it's got a great detail too. i've got to check your gallery
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"[on computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers."
P.Picasso
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Ha, yeah a good point. But Picasso never saw Photoshop.
Warhol was just getting into art made on the computer shortly before his demise.
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hehe i was jun making a gratuitous pun, actually, a quote i fell by a quarter before meeting with this beautiful deviation... my loving of synchronicities shall be my demise; he at least never saw your work nor some other artists' ... and could not conceive the computer as a non-linear tool, used for, at the very least, compounding representations and percepts...
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The great beauty of this is that unfinnish look to it...it makes it much more interesting to the eye to try to figure out the "missing" parts.
I am very lousy at reusing stuff, or very lazy probably, but it is really interesting to look back and see the different flavors a piece can have...
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You completely rock my socks off with this. It looks less like a painting and more like some artifact. In a good way.
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ahh, what can i say? you've done it again. and expect you will yet again.
i have a thing for this layered style myself.
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I am working on an image, it would mean, great aproval to me, on a level, when I am finished with it, in a day or so I hope if you would stop by and look at it. MMMMMM ok, take
care
MM tired
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Hey right on, sorry if I am not more active in commenting/responding, free time is few and far in between thusfar but when it comes,
I do look at work quite a lot and would be happy to check it out.
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This, I like.
It is, at the same time, horiffic and wanton.
I get appalled by it but at the same time it makes me want to look closer, to see all details...
Is everything on the image made "from scratch" or did you use any stock material? I just invested in Photoshop CS and will be making more of these kind of stuff myself (not that it will be this good, but aspiring towards this anyway) and so I'm currently looking at building up my stockmaterial again.
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Hmmm, nope this is pretty much a sketch that decided to bite the hand that fed it.
From there it is a matter of containing it with geometric elements and essentially moulding it into form.
I have to say, working digital feels at times, more like sculpting than painting.
Sounds like a great idea, go to town on that kind of stuff, at the end of the process you have strengthened your technique and sharpened your mind at the very least.
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At the risk of sounding simplistic, I got'a say, 'this fucking rocks'. 
Again I see you play hues off their near opposites, is that just an aesthetic choice or is there some message in the inharmonious color?
What do you use as your primary airbrushing software? This looks a little too synthetic to be Painter, you use Photoshop then?
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Thanks for the feedback, your observations are razor sharp.
I use Photoshop exclusively. Tried Painter back in the v1 days but the interface was so alien it was more trouble than it was worth.
One day I will learn painter, but in the meantime I find myself coming back to graphite on paper on occasion.
There is something deliberate in the choice of hues, I will see/feel the colors beforehand and then check them to make sure they match what I saw in my mind. Of course, I think there are colors we can conceptualize that we can't ever really get the pigments or pixels to create.
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I try. 
Painter's interface is retarded, even in more recent versions, I don't understand why such a useful program must be presented in such a useless form. Interface issues are also why I don't use it, I'll have to learn it some day myself, for now I save myself the anguish.
Good to know, I wondered where you stood and if I may be mistakenly giving more importance to color relationships then you meant for them to have.
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Hey good call about the door aspect.
I think my absolute favorite area is the "signature" which is completely fabricated to give the impression of "signature".
Odd how little details will 'legitimize' the sensations.
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yes sir, i just read something, somewhere, in something, about picasso, and his antics. he sketched, then painted two paintings, then kept the third, never covering a painting with ground. but you know this. so. the bottom half is what i adore and the black square, in his mouth like a door.
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