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Nightime · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 1:35 pm

Hullo, :)

As you can see, my fascination with landscapes still prevail... this is something I started recently from scratch, and I really want to ask if I successfully invoked a particular mood inside... (Is it eerie? Or at least, does the piece portray a strange story?)

also..feel free to nit pick at everything... especially if I can show depth and value correctly.. and as for the title, Woman Asleep... I can't think of anything else without becoming overly pretentious..

If you're at a higher res, you can check out the bigger version:

(whopping 700kb) http://members.home.net/jeremy12/web/WomanAsleep.jpg

(p.s... just saw Spooge and Vebjorn's images.... wooa. :)

Thanks guys :)

JJ http://members.home.net/jeremy12/web

[This message has been edited by Nightime (edited July 15, 2000).]

PuckDewd · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 1:48 pm

Very nice Nighttime. If it was eerie you were going for you definiately achieved it. Yet it also has a sense of comfort. Yes I said comfort

It somewhat reminds me of the Irish countryside on those cold, foggy mornings. Good use of color and detail.

Kyri · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 2:03 pm

Thats a really nice pic nightime. You've definetly achieved a great sense of mood with it. I'm not sure if it is eerie, more just calm I think but great nonetheless.

TeAnne · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 2:10 pm

This is like a Fred McCubbin (Aussie Artist)
I also find it peaceful...What medium did you use? Or is it computer generated? It's so good, I cant tell

klaivu · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 2:32 pm

I really like the mood in that pic. Calm and eerie.. just how I like it.
Something in the back of my head keeps saying its an oil painting made in the middle ages.. hmm

SushiMaster · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 2:47 pm

Yes, it looks a lot as if it was painted by Turner (an english painter around the napoleonic era)... I like the style very much :-) But why not just call it "landscape"? :-P

Daniel

faustgfx · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 5:42 pm

couldn't count the amount of "bad" emotions the picture looks like. (yes, looks like.)

'course, i can find negative in everything, but that's besides the point.

beats me whether that's good or bad though, considering it's actually supposed to invoke something.

*shrug*

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AprilYSH · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 7:03 pm

wow, is this really digital art? it's so traditional media looking! i'd hang it on my wall!

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psi burn · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 8:09 pm

doesnt look like a woman sleeping tho =[

AliasMoze · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 10:07 pm

Nightime,
Some of your values are way bright. Not sure if that was on purpose.

The woman doesn't read as a woman. I wouldn't have known unless you said it.

Some of your values, like the rocks and grass, are great. There is a rubberstamp quality to the grass that looks surreal.

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burn0ut · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2000 10:56 pm

hehe, i just relized that was a top of a house in the near middle of the picture.

Nightime · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2000 1:38 pm

Thanks for the feedback guys :)

TeAnne, I never heard of Fred McCubbin, but I looked him up after I read your post. Very nice, I think it's his use of restrained color that I share. If I had to say which artist sparks me the most, it would be the strange American illustrator Andrew Wyeth (famous icon paintings like, Christina's World). Oh and, "Woman Asleep" was all Photoshop.

SushiMaster, /me waves. Nice seeing you here too from Topaz. It reminds you of Turner? Wow, that's awesome (and very flattering :) I've seen a lot of Turner's works, and I'm not sure -- other than color palette, but Turner captures light, energy and emotions quite wonderfully, sometimes to the point of abstraction (especially later works in life.)

faustgfx, I think I know what you mean. My painting is already getting me nauseated just after looking at it.

AprilYSH, Hiya from Topaz :)

psiburn, that's true.. Especially after AliasMoze's comment, I can see how the woman looks like just a clump of... things. Hmm. I think the title is ill-named, "Woman Asleep" doesn't offer much. I'll have to think of something else.

AliasMoze, recognizing value has always been my trouble. After looking over Spooge Demon's paintings I'm in awe struck, it seems so natural to him. Thanks though, I'll have to darken some areas, particularly in the background I think.

Thanks again :)

JJ / Nightime http://members.home.net/jeremy12/web