03/30/2008 13:00:36

if you like the vastness of the page google Leonard Baskin, he's a big influence of mine, the man is a master of the page, really check it out!

ps thanks for the compliment!

caleb

03/30/2008 11:23:18

Hi Sellio!  Thank you for posting on my site.  I love your work, you have great skill for a self taught artist!  I especially love your sense of humor in 'All Bark and No Bite"...cracked me up! and it is drawn very well.  And we use almost the same words when we talk about 'turning the work / art" equation around ... YOU GO GIRL!

Thank you for your comments on "The Cermony" it was painted as I prayed for a friend, and also was experimenting with a new painting technique.  Many people see the rooster and the figure inside of that.  It is a multi dimensional painting, and I am happy to say that it has sold!  You have good taste!

Looking forward to watching your art journey take off and I"m so glad you've found this site.  It is a wonderful place!  Best, Sandy

03/30/2008 07:40:09

I saw you came to my brand new site so I visited you. Love the "concerned Mother"! I feel the trees looking at me like that all the time!

 Hannah

03/29/2008 18:18:03

Thanks for visiting "Constellation" and leaving your comment regarding my use of color. I actually use a limited pallet with each painting. Before I start the painting I choose one red, one blue, one yellow and white. Sometimes I'll include a green, a purple or an orange - and on rare occasion I'll choose a 2nd red, yellow or blue. I mix all my colors from this limited pallet - including what ends up looking black. I hate using black from a tube in my paintings because it "flattens" the color-but sometimes a painting calls for it. My pallet for "Constellation" consisted of Cobalt Blue Hue, Cadmium Yellow Light Hue, Burgundy (a mix of Naphtol Crimson & Burnt Umber from Liquitex), Cadmium Orange and Titanium White.

I'm sure you never expected a dissertation when you placed your comment. Sorry, I get a bit windy.    -Don

03/29/2008 15:33:12

Spatter - thats the effect that makes the paint look 'spattered'! or speckled. or textured. I dont know how someone would do it in any other medium but watercolor and all it requires is a round brush (#10 is my favorite size), and the flick of the wrist. Some people prefer hitting the brush with the paint against the wood of another brush to get the paint to 'fling' onto the painting. I was heavily into spatter when I did my full moon series a few years ago and now I find I just dont spatter as much.

Sue, have a wonderful time in Hawaii and enjoy the escape from reality. Ill be doing the same thing next month when I visit my son in Italy.

Robin

03/28/2008 18:18:38

Hi-  You mean to tell me you live in Maine?  I've only ever seen pictures of Maine and it looks beautiful in the summer and fall.  I'm grew up in Chicago, but the winters annoyed the crap out of me so I moved to Florida almost twenty years ago.  Things are very different from the frozen north here.  Warm winters, palm trees, exotic birds, alligators--not to mention the beaches.  I realize Florida isn't for everyone but I'll take white sand over white snow anytime. Keep up the great work. Stay cool (or warm? --whatever)   -W

03/28/2008 10:55:48

Nasus Noaj is anything you wish it to be though many seeing formal names in some of my titles most of the time they are words from other languages or just a jumble of letters.  Most of my current work centers around environmental or ecological issues focused off on some far distant world but can be related to our own time and place.

 

Thank you for checking my wok out I do appreciate it very much. 

03/27/2008 22:36:36

Your work is so beautiful. Really enjoyed looking around your gallery. And thanks so much for your visits to my page!