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22 May 2013, 9:54 pm

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I love photorealism :thumleft:


I love naked ladies!

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22 May 2013, 10:03 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I love photorealism :thumleft:


I love naked ladies!

yes, the OP is a fortunate man with talent for getting women to like him enough for him to paint them naked.



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23 May 2013, 12:48 pm

Ah, but only if I had talent enough to make them stay.



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23 May 2013, 3:53 pm

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Ah, but only if I had talent enough to make them stay.

my question for you, is- how did you get them to agree to strip and pose in the first place? I can't help but think that if you extended whatever technique you used to get them to do this for you, just a bit, that you would have them eating out of your hand, so to speak. it is a BIG step to get a lady to strip and lay down on your bed, so the rest seems to me, to be just a bit more. but then again, i'm just a clueless aspie guy :duh: :oops:



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23 May 2013, 3:56 pm

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Ah, but only if I had talent enough to make them stay.

my question for you, is- how did you get them to agree to strip and pose in the first place? I can't help but think that if you extended whatever technique you used to get them to do this for you, just a bit, that you would have them eating out of your hand, so to speak. it is a BIG step to get a lady to strip and lay down on your bed, so the rest seems to me, to be just a bit more. but then again, i'm just a clueless aspie guy :duh: :oops:


Despite being married, I've always been pretty clueless with the ladies, myself. :lol:

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23 May 2013, 4:03 pm

Well, when i'm paining I'm aiming at seduction. I'm quite old fashioned about such things. Also, don't want to get a reputation for being a letch. Would never get someone to pose again.



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23 May 2013, 4:19 pm

I meant to say, Not aiming at seduction.....Freudian slip there.



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23 May 2013, 4:38 pm

ROSSVG wrote:
I meant to say, Not aiming at seduction.....Freudian slip there.

what about "paining" ? -
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"when i'm paining..."

is that another Freudian slip? a subject having to maintain a pose long enough to be painted, must not be too comfortable.



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23 May 2013, 4:46 pm

No, just a bad keyboard.



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23 May 2013, 4:50 pm

auntblabby wrote:
I love photorealism :thumleft:


It's more like Photoshop realism.


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23 May 2013, 5:01 pm

I have been wondering what techniques you use to make them so lifelike.



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24 May 2013, 12:30 pm

I break the image down into a grid in my mind, then do each segment as one small image, making up to a whole.



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24 May 2013, 12:59 pm

puddingmouse wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I love photorealism :thumleft:


It's more like Photoshop realism.


Sorry Puddingmouse?.........you were saying something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAm2XGCfy-w



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24 May 2013, 1:46 pm

ROSSVG wrote:
I break the image down into a grid in my mind, then do each segment as one small image, making up to a whole.


I saw an article on an artist with prosopagnosia who did it that way. They had a picture of him painting an image with the image itself to the side for reference with a grid overlay on it.

I looked for the article, but couldn't find it. I wonder if it was this artist who has prosopagnosia and paints portraits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close



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24 May 2013, 2:41 pm

What I find fascinating is that it is an acrylic painting. Acrylic tends to dry very fast, making it quite difficult (in my opinion) to really work out details and get a painting realistic. Unlike oil, which you can take forever to paint. Is there a specific technique you use to get the paint to dry a little slower to paint so realistically?



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24 May 2013, 6:22 pm

ROSSVG wrote:
puddingmouse wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
I love photorealism :thumleft:


It's more like Photoshop realism.


Sorry Puddingmouse?.........you were saying something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAm2XGCfy-w


I wasn't saying you didn't have the talent to do the paintings, I was saying that they're like visual representations of unreal fantasy women that have had all the imperfections Photoshopped out of them. Basically, whilst you're very talented it's not to my taste because I'm a 'warts and all' type of person. I appreciate the unreal perfectness of the pictures is probably something to do with the materials used and you probably have artistic reasons for wanting to create images like that. I've done punk music which people have called meaningless noise and strongly disliked, but harsh noise was what I was aiming for, anyway - the main thing is that I like the way it sounds. It would be madness for me to expect everyone to like it, especially given the style it's in.

Also, lepidopterists daughter is a reference to Nabakov/Lolita, perhaps? Or maybe Madame Butterfly because of the whole Oriental look? Either way, not up my street. You don't have to apologise for making the images you want and I don't have to apologise for the way I interpret them.

I suspect you're not going to take this well (I don't exactly like it when people criticise my songwriting), but rest assured I do think you're very skilled. Don't let the fact that some woman on the Internet isn't a fan of your style put you off painting because you definitely should make it your life's calling. You're going to have plenty of fans and people who love your stuff. You'll probably meet more people like that than people like me because I'm weird and have weird tastes.


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