I painted this panel for a really cool frame I found on sale at Pier One. I work on these with the saint's relics near by and touch them to the relics when they are completed.
Terry, I haven't visited here in a long while. These are all really wonderful. Don't count yourself short yet on painting miniatures. As I scrolled through, the one I really stopped at to admire was the one of Junipero Serra, so there's something maybe you're not seeing because it wasn't quite what you intended.
All of our "direct" photos of the images are very muted and pale compared to the images of the works in the frame and angled. Is this intentional to stop people from making good copies of your work?
Hi Christopher, Thanks very much for the encouragement - I have fallen into discouragement and felt my work was a waste of time and badly done. I've almost been 'forcing' myself to paint in spite of myself. Your words are a comfort.
I only shoot at an angle in order to avoid flashback, I would never be opposed to someone making copies of what I do.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
Watchmen
And suddenly the truth came to me, as we stood there, trembling, searching, at our point of fulcrum. There were no watching eyes. The windows were as blank as they looked. The theatre was empty. It was not a theatre. They had told her it was a theatre, and she had believed them, and I had believed her. To bring us to this - not for themselves, but for us. I turned and looked at the windows, the facade, the pompous white pedimental figures. - John Fowles, The Magus
St. Sebastian
More 'about me'.
... My idea of what I am is falsified by my preoccupation about what I do. And my illusions about myself are bred by contagion from the illusions of other men. We all seek to emulate one anothers imagined greatness....If I do not know who I am, it is because I think I am the sort of person everyone around me wants me to be. I have asked myself whether I wanted to become what everybody else seems to want to become... only to realize that I do not admire what everyone else seems to admire. I have only thus begun to live after all... But it is very late. - Adapted from a quote by Thomas Merton
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Terry, I haven't visited here in a long while. These are all really wonderful. Don't count yourself short yet on painting miniatures. As I scrolled through, the one I really stopped at to admire was the one of Junipero Serra, so there's something maybe you're not seeing because it wasn't quite what you intended.
All of our "direct" photos of the images are very muted and pale compared to the images of the works in the frame and angled. Is this intentional to stop people from making good copies of your work?
Hi Christopher, Thanks very much for the encouragement - I have fallen into discouragement and felt my work was a waste of time and badly done. I've almost been 'forcing' myself to paint in spite of myself. Your words are a comfort.
I only shoot at an angle in order to avoid flashback, I would never be opposed to someone making copies of what I do.
A blessed Advent to you and your family!
i love this. very charming.
I more than love this. I covet it. The painting and the frame were made for each other - a perfect marriage.
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