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liquidclouds — the Aftermath
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the aftermathoil on MDF panel
37x36cm
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so so sweet! the cloud on the ground is just so beautiful
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I like the way the cloudy layer is blurred into the blue sky, fading back into it and making it deeper in comparison to its sharp center which is also serving to break up the composition's horizontal spaces, or it could also be said that the horizontal spaces are serving to make the viewer notice the more vertical/triangular shape of that rolling cloud, and this makes it seem to have more movement, as if it is actually rolling, coming closer, and going up. I like the abstract look of the black and white elements on the horizon...it's as if they could be buildings, people gathering spilled paper, but whatever you imagine them to be they are vulnerable on the naked earth and subject to that vast sky. Something else pretty cool about the composition is that it breaks rules (compositional theory rules I've been taught) because the cloud itself is pointing up, leading the viewer out of the picture plane and there's nothing above that arrow to stop you from leaving, but there is that static shape on the horizon, the tiny cloud, and it's bright value is pulling the eyes back into the picture by creating that association with the shape in the sky that is broken up by the space created by the horizon. I love that about it. By zooming out I noticed that all the white values from the overpowering cloud in the sky to the small cloud on the horizon to those broken up shapes move the eyes around the entire space of the picture, it's like a trap 
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thank you for for your lenghty analysis 
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"empty barrels make the most noise" I like that!
Thank you so much for replying! I think way too much when I work, but I am incapable of analyzing my own work the way I can another person's until some time has passed after completing it; the funniest thing about it is that the best work seems to just happen.
I had a very strict teacher, and much as I respect him I have noticed lately that he has become incapable of creating artwork for himself, he cannot work unless he has a commission from someone else. It's frightening to me, because his potential is at its peak, and he just turned 70, but the economy is pretty bad over here, so it's hard to get commissions freelancing. I still have my very first sketchbook and I recently looked back through it again, it was an amazing experience after so many years because I realized how ...if I were to recreate the silly animals and creatures and worlds I made then, how they could be even better paintings then what I have been making now, and it was funny to see how the more skillful I would become as the years passed, while things became easier to discern, the pictures became less and less interesting to see. It made me aware of a spectrum which exists between why we create and what we create. We can train ourselves through repeated efforts to improve what we create, in such a way that anybody can learn how to draw if they're willing to learn how to see and to train the muscles in their hands etc. But nobody can teach you why to create, to make your work the experience of your life, and to allow it to be one of wondrous curiosity and joy, or emotional meaning.
I'm happy to have found you, and it will be a great pleasure seeing and learning from your future work
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Lovely concept and nice use of colours.
Also, the way you paint clouds is really lovely, that little cream cloud just does it.
Great work, keep it up!
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very nice
i feel like the ground plane is really flat though
thats the only thing that bothers me
nicely done
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thanks 
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i see
yeah trying to paint a ground that doesnt really have any landmarks and not make it flat is hard
but its definitely all about the darker up close lighter in back with it kind of fading into the sky only way i know how to do it
its definitely hard to show depth in a picture like this without having alterations to the mood
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