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Welcome to the Common Guild. We are before grass roots. We are somewhat like grass seed. Here you will find musicians, artists, and writers, all seeking to let you in on a bit of their musings.
The Rules are fairly simple. We will put up a song, piece of visual art, or short writing (we will endeavor to have 3 posts or so per week (sometimes more, sometimes less). Music on Mondays, visual art on Wednesdays, creative writings on Friday. You, in turn, will generate the true content of this blog-the comments. Please contribute and join us in the project. You may comment on the content, the presentation, the musical arrangement, or any other thing as you see fit.
Remember, we all have our part to play. We are about discussion and feedback on this site-we're about doin'.
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Welcome to the Common Guild. We are before grass roots. We are somewhat like grass seed. Here you will find musicians, artists, and writers, all seeking to let you in on a bit of their musings.
The Rules are fairly simple. We will put up a song, piece of visual art, or short writing (we will endeavor to have 3 posts or so per week (sometimes more, sometimes less). Music on Mondays, visual art on Wednesdays, creative writings on Friday. You, in turn, will generate the true content of this blog-the comments. Please contribute and join us in the project. You may comment on the content, the presentation, the musical arrangement, or any other thing as you see fit.
Remember, we all have our part to play. We are about discussion and feedback on this site-we're about doin'.
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August
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- Friday Writings-Lodge Men
- Monday Music-Piper
- Friday Writings-Crossroad
- Wednesday Art-Asian Pears
- Monday Music-3,700
- Visual Art Wednesday-Send Me Your Art!
- Music Monday-Fall, Fell, Fallen, Have Fallen
- Visual Wednesday-Obama Said What?
- Music Monday--Wait it Out
- ON THE RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY OF MORNING CEREAL BOX...
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6 comments:
it looks like oil, but i can't tell since it is on a computer.
I like the white on the pear in the fore-ground giving it a little light reflection feel.
the shadows are gooda and are one fo the better aspects of the piece, simply because i had to look at it awhile before i even noticed that portion. That is to say it looked so natural that i had to disect the piece before coming to it.
i don't know if you are accepting criticism or not, and you are probably a very seasoned artist.
one thing i have to watch out for is making sure my shadows match the light source's direction. so, if the white on the front pear is from light reflecting on the peel, then the light source would be above or even slightly to the front and either side of the pears. otherwise, the shadows should be different and so on.
this is a good piece. it would go perfectly in a kitchen. i also like the colors you used for background, they cause the reds and greens to jump out.
i hope to see more!
i like the background glow. was this entirely red and green and mixtures, tints, and shades thereof? very nice.
I like the use of peach (that's what I called this color as a kid) in a picture of pears.
I also think there is a bit of irony in that I would have imagined you using a pair of pears and not a threesome. I don't know if this was intentional. You know, your way of "thinking alternatively" as our late-great prof used to say. I'm going to imagine it so.
I also like the take Baker brings to this discussion. As a non-painter, I guess I have never really paid close attention to shadows within a painting. I now think it would be interesting to paint the same painting, but light each pear or leaf differntly such that you have a mass of skewed shadows from the subject matter.
Does that even make sense?
Baker, tell me no.
Anyway, Cindy, I am amazed with your abilities (and your tamales).
Wow. I had no idea you were even going to post this today, Seth Mouk! You do me too much honor!
Thank you to the commentators. And the tip on the light source. I am but a serious amateur and not seasoned in oils at all.
Please check out the site of the one art instructor who taught me how to paint in impressions:
http://giladamspaintings.blogspot.com/
Much unlike myself, he IS a seasoned artist and a very nice man!
As far as a bio, I'm like watching paint dry, so I won't torture...Suffice it to say, I am Seth's friend from grad school. We were once taught to "think alternatively" in the same class room. I put Seth to the test on this manner of thinking when I asked him to marry me to my husband. Another story for another time. Perhaps in thinking so alternatively, I subconsciously came to paint this still life of 3 asian pears...
Thanks again for the comments. I appreciate your kindness. This will compel me to keep on a paintin'...
Cindy
i enjoyed it a lot, cindy. keep them coming. i will try to convince seth to put some of my amateur stuff up also in the near future, and then you can give me a what-for. seth is definitely alternative. in the dictionary he is giving a thumb's up with a sort of sarcastic laissez-faire grin.
I just had to jump in here...Cindy, what a wonderful job on the pears!!
Really..that's your best yet.
Thanks for the link. Let's see some
more now.
Gil
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