Abstract Nature
Experimenting with possibilities20 total reviews
Comment from allanoak
As an abstract I think this works very well.
The complementary colors of red/green are effective in creating a sense of drama to the scene.
There are numerous leading lines to the reddish part, making that the subject? Ones mind has to fill in the bland. Is this a bird? A person sitting under a tree? Or anything else that ones mind could envision.
Nice job, and thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 05-Feb-2015
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As an abstract I think this works very well.
The complementary colors of red/green are effective in creating a sense of drama to the scene.
There are numerous leading lines to the reddish part, making that the subject? Ones mind has to fill in the bland. Is this a bird? A person sitting under a tree? Or anything else that ones mind could envision.
Nice job, and thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 04-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 05-Feb-2015
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Thank you very much! Yes the reddish part is a subject, anything you can envision. Truth I have my own ideas about the subject, this is an abstract and therefore free for interpretation.
Comment from momentsofjoy7351
I find this abstract quite beautiful and a bit haunting. It is as if a great storm has blown into the middle and pushed nature to it's limit.
Beautifully done.
reply by the author on 04-Feb-2015
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I find this abstract quite beautiful and a bit haunting. It is as if a great storm has blown into the middle and pushed nature to it's limit.
Beautifully done.
Comment Written 04-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 04-Feb-2015
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Thank you, I appreciate your review ad your interesting interpretation. Nature is somtime violent. Some of this is indeed in the painting.
Comment from avmurray
You are probably going to tell me that you don't think this work is good enough either, but I like what you have done here quite well. The color pallet works well with the red as a center of interest, and I also think it is a good flow in the painting.
I do however think the bottom right corner is a bit empty and pale and this for some reason rocks the balance of the composition. Just bringing down some of the vibrant greens seen at the top to this area would have been enough.
Still I think this is an all together well crafted and lovely abstract, but in need of some small adjustments.
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reply by the author on 03-Feb-2015
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You are probably going to tell me that you don't think this work is good enough either, but I like what you have done here quite well. The color pallet works well with the red as a center of interest, and I also think it is a good flow in the painting.
I do however think the bottom right corner is a bit empty and pale and this for some reason rocks the balance of the composition. Just bringing down some of the vibrant greens seen at the top to this area would have been enough.
Still I think this is an all together well crafted and lovely abstract, but in need of some small adjustments.
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Comment Written 03-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 03-Feb-2015
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You are absolute right with your opinion. Thats just another experimet, not a finished work. We could call it an tripple experiment. I wanted to find out what is possible with digital oils, but more than that I wanted to find out what is possible in abstract because I am not realy home there. Last but not least I wanted to find out what people who are not home at art or abstract make of it. The feed back was really surprising and a revelation. I have seldom so much learned from reviews! of cours I got a few of those generated feel good reviews, bust most people came up with how the colors work for them and what they see in the picture. Anything between emotion, white horses and ladies in their parlor came up. This really surprised me. People seem to think more about an abstract than they think about something in reality with a title leading to the subject.
You are absolute right with thev emtiness of the right corner. The dark stone from the left site bolongs there. The left is too heavy spoiling the ballance.
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I an so happy we agree. I think the dark stone belongs there as well. I am truly honored you found my review helpful Cleo, and you are more than welcome.
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:O) !
Comment from GaliaG
excellent piece
excellent use of colors, great creativity and lovely initial impact
good technique and composition
well done and thanks for sharing
reply by the author on 03-Feb-2015
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excellent piece
excellent use of colors, great creativity and lovely initial impact
good technique and composition
well done and thanks for sharing
Comment Written 03-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 03-Feb-2015
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Thank you Galia,
I appreciate your review very much.
Comment from Shamblen
I like he presentation and the details, but I think the colors are not quite harmonious. Everything works well but then the red really jumps out at you. This is just my opinion, but I think when the colors go together it just looks better. Beautiful designs and well presented!
reply by the author on 03-Feb-2015
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I like he presentation and the details, but I think the colors are not quite harmonious. Everything works well but then the red really jumps out at you. This is just my opinion, but I think when the colors go together it just looks better. Beautiful designs and well presented!
Comment Written 02-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 03-Feb-2015
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Thank you very much for your kind review and your input. Could you specify which color disturb the harmony that I could lern and try to change it?
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I think the red is too much. I would have stayed with the green tones.
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I thought you would complain on the dark spots left. I guess I have to change my concept and paint another picture, because the red is meand as flower on a vine in a native sorrounding enviroment, like the Everglads or the Olympic penensula. I will think about.
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It is merely a suggestion, it is my preference. It in no way takes away from your talented work.
Comment from Jean A Cormier
The color palette and random shapes give this a certain cohesiveness, the composition is relatively undefined, which is not a negative, but my eye looks for more structure in a work and more depth. That being said, it is an abstract, so open to interpretations, has organic qualities and vivid hues abound. I would probably stop to peek at this in a gallery as the red draws me in, a bird taking flight or a flower...? jean
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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The color palette and random shapes give this a certain cohesiveness, the composition is relatively undefined, which is not a negative, but my eye looks for more structure in a work and more depth. That being said, it is an abstract, so open to interpretations, has organic qualities and vivid hues abound. I would probably stop to peek at this in a gallery as the red draws me in, a bird taking flight or a flower...? jean
Comment Written 02-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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Thank you Much Jean!
I am still experimenting with possibillities. This is a kind of a double experiment, two for one. I am still experimentig with the medias digital painting offers to me. I will try to archive more struckture and dept without getting to figural on the subject. I have done abstracts before, but they were always accompanied by one of my stories when I posted them. People took for given what I wrote and did not think further about. I got the other way around this time, because I wanted to know what people think when they do not get a story with the picture. I am amazed by the respose to this piece. Of course, I got a few of the usual generated "I like this -good work" , but most reviewers thought about what it could be. Of course I had an idea when I painted this, but I could hardly believe what people saw and all the wonderful stories the came up with. Horses, flowers, animals, people, creatures.... They realy got my imagination going, stuff for other painting and a book of fairytales or so.
You are very close with your guesses on the theme.
Cleo
Comment from Linda Bickston
Your abstract looks like an oil painting. I can see a woman, dressed in red, falling into the arms of a blossoming plant. This is beautiful.
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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Your abstract looks like an oil painting. I can see a woman, dressed in red, falling into the arms of a blossoming plant. This is beautiful.
Comment Written 02-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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Thank you very much. I like what you see. Your interpretation is like a romance.
I am thrillet about the response to the piece. So many stories, and all are beautiful. Maybe I use all the ideas [including yours if you do not mine] in a book of fairy tales.
Comment from Lilibug6
This is very beautiful! Abstracts are not normally my thing but I really like this one=) The colors are great! There seems to be more purpose in this one than others I have seen! This is very well done and a pleasure to view! Lilibug6
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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This is very beautiful! Abstracts are not normally my thing but I really like this one=) The colors are great! There seems to be more purpose in this one than others I have seen! This is very well done and a pleasure to view! Lilibug6
Comment Written 02-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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Thank you! I appreciate your review very much. I think even abstracts should have purpose. The motto I had in mind was the beauty of nature.
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I really like it :) Lili
Comment from snowblaze
Oh! I like this -- and I'm not a huge fan of abstract. It has flow, motion and takes the viewer's eye around the frame. I think it looks like a floral piece... maybe a ginger flower? I also like that the hot and cool colors are a dancing together.
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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Oh! I like this -- and I'm not a huge fan of abstract. It has flow, motion and takes the viewer's eye around the frame. I think it looks like a floral piece... maybe a ginger flower? I also like that the hot and cool colors are a dancing together.
Comment Written 02-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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Thank you very much for your kind review. Floral is very close, I had untouched nature in my mind.
Comment from jrconrad
It's really not possible to say what is "wrong" with an abstract unless you are expressing taste which is not what these reviews are supposed to be about. I'm not an artist, so I wouldn't know what was wrong anyway. I can say I find it very pleasing (taste) and enjoy looking at it. What I see from a photographers POV is impressive digital manipulation. Great job. Cheers, James.
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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It's really not possible to say what is "wrong" with an abstract unless you are expressing taste which is not what these reviews are supposed to be about. I'm not an artist, so I wouldn't know what was wrong anyway. I can say I find it very pleasing (taste) and enjoy looking at it. What I see from a photographers POV is impressive digital manipulation. Great job. Cheers, James.
Comment Written 02-Feb-2015
reply by the author on 02-Feb-2015
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Thank you very much for your kind review. I mean my request not aesthetically, but pure technically. I understand your regret not to review by taste. I understand also that a photographer who never touched a paint brush could not write about brushstrokes or mixing colors. Nevertheless I do not think that some of the rules of art are not different from photography. The Dept of Field for example is similar to Perspective. I also think that the first impression a viewer gets is the most important for an photographer as for an artist, even when this has to do with taste. We do not take photos or produce art for ourselves. We want to reach the audience [the recipients, the viewers] with it and most likely send a message. We like or dislike photos as art emotionally. If we want or not want this, its there because we are human. A review cannot be entirely without subjective opinion.I think If one reviewer dislike the piece its probably subjective, but if more than 50% dislike the piece I made a mistake because I was unable to transmit my emotion to the viewer. So if you like my abstract as photographer, if it is pleasing to you that means you did understand my picture since the message is about the beauty of nature.
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Thanks for you response.
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:0) Thank you ~Cleo